O pen the front door of the Roanoke Tribune on a Wednesday afternoon, and you'll hear the sound of hurried voices and rustling paper. Plastic mailing bins are strewn around the small newsroom, where at least a dozen people, mostly family members, stick address labels onto folded newspapers. The air inside the brick building at 2318 Melrose Avenue in Roanoke holds the faint smell of newsprint. It's the Tribune's weekly mailing day, the one afternoon when like clockwork children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and friends of editor and publisher Claudia Whitworth gather to label and pack the weekly publication. The approximately 4,500 copies of the newspaper are mailed to addresses across the Roanoke Valley and to at least 27 other states. TheRoanoker.com MARCH/APRIL 2021 29http://www.TheRoanoker.com