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Staunton: Are the new Bigbelly trash cans being used to spy on us?
A reader wrote to ask if I knew about the City of Staunton installing Bigbelly trash cans on city sidewalks that appear to be connected to the cloud, and to ask if I could find out if the trash cans could be used for surveillance purposes.
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Grand jury indicts Charlottesville man in two alleged assaults of federal cops
A Charlottesville man already under indictment in a child sex case is facing fresh charges involving the alleged assault of federal cops.
62-year-old Augusta County man arrested, in custody on child sex charges
The Augusta County Sheriff’s Office announced an arrest in a child sex case on Thursday.
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1,000 Miles for 1,000 Lights: Group riding to raise money to give light to those in need
A group raising money for Watts of Love, which works to literally bring light, in the form of sustainable solar light, to people in parts of the world without electricity, will be riding through the Shenandoah Valley next week on its fourth annual 1,000 Miles for 1,000 Lights ride.
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John Whitehead | When everything becomes a national security threat
“National security” has become the government’s all-purpose permission slip to behave badly.
Waynesboro: Seems out of whack, what we pay the guy who runs the school system
I wonder if Waynesboro taxpayers know that they are paying the guy who manages the $65.7 million school budget more than they pay the guy who manages the $167.5 million budget that runs the entire city government?
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My one-man boycott of the NFL over genocide isn’t going to work, but anyway
I’m through the first week of my one-man boycott of the NFL, which, admittedly, is making about as much a dent on the league’s bottom line as any other act of a single person yelling into the endless void would be expected to do.
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WVU fans hit UVA Marching Band with ‘homophobic and racist slurs, antisemitism’
Some more insight into the scene at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte for last weekend’s UVA-WVU game came in this morning from a member of the Cavalier Marching Band.
Tim Kaine votes no on Protect College Sports Act: Bill ‘not ready for primetime’
Tim Kaine signaled that he’s a no vote on the so-called Protect College Sports Act, with a nay vote on a procedural measure on Tuesday that sets the legislation up for a U.S. Senate floor vote.
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62-year-old Augusta County man arrested, in custody on child sex charges
The Augusta County Sheriff’s Office announced an arrest in a child sex case on Thursday.
My one-man boycott of the NFL over genocide isn’t going to work, but anyway
I’m through the first week of my one-man boycott of the NFL, which, admittedly, is making about as much a dent on the league’s bottom line as any other act of a single person yelling into the endless void would be expected to do.
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