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Staunton: Taking a train ride, back in time, on the Gypsy Express
We had friends in town, they have a young’un, and they’d read about the Gypsy Express, the mini-train in Gypsy Hill Park in Staunton that has been taking kids on rides since 1958.
‘The Blue Ridge Beast,’ Rex Keller, has eyes on launching Valley-based wrestling promotion
In the ring, Rex Keller is every bit “The Blue Ridge Beast” – 6’3”, 330 pounds, reminds you of Big Van Vader, the former NFL player Leon White, who won championships in WCW and WWE.
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VDOT: Local road construction, maintenance for the week of Aug. 10-14
We’ve got the list of updated VDOT road projects in Augusta County, Nelson County, Rockbridge County and Rockingham County for the coming week.
Staunton: They actually want to make it harder to get around downtown?
Folks in Staunton aren’t sure about plans for downtown traffic that will make it harder to drive through and to find parking spaces, but I’m going to write about a today difficulty with downtown.
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Brian Pinkston | Government that listens: or, constituents, cranks and activists (oh my!)
It is a paradox of our age that for all the boundless ways we can now communicate, so many people yet feel unheard.
Alon Ben-Meir | Netanyahu’s challengers are selling the same poison
One would think that after Oct. 7 and the Gaza war that followed, the leaders from the main opposition parties would have drawn the obvious conclusion.
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Brock Lesnar retirement: My favorite five matches featuring ‘The Beast Incarnate’
Former UFC heavyweight champion and WWE superstar Brock Lesnar announced his retirement from combat sports earlier this week on “The Pat McAfee Show.”
UVA Football: Program looking into bringing back two grads after court ruling
The depth for UVA Football on the D line might be getting deeper, with the program announcing on Saturday that Jacob Holmes and Cazeem Moore are being “integrated” into preseason activities.
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Brock Lesnar retirement: My favorite five matches featuring ‘The Beast Incarnate’
Former UFC heavyweight champion and WWE superstar Brock Lesnar announced his retirement from combat sports earlier this week on “The Pat McAfee Show.”
The Commonwealth of Virginia has long been fertile ground for MLB scouts
We recently reported on Bill Buck, a long-time resident of Northern Virginia who covered the Mid-Atlantic region as a professional baseball scout for the Detroit Tigers before retiring in 2015.
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