Virginia is in its third year of recognizing Juneteenth as an official state holiday and is celebrating the holiday all month long with events, speaker series, tours, and virtual offerings across the state.
Staunton has been awarded $317,340 in federal funding for affordable housing, and Waynesboro stands to get $187,537 in affordable housing funds from monies coming from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Julie Montross has been named executive director of the The Paramount Theater, succeeding Chris Eure, who held the position for 10 years and announced her retirement in November of last year.
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality announced more than $14 million in funding for public schools throughout the Commonwealth to replace old diesel school buses with all-electric buses.
Encyclopedia Virginia has received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a three-year project to tell the inclusive story of the American Revolution in Virginia.
Katharina Ravichandran, a senior at Albemarle High School, will represent Virginia in the national Poetry Out Loud competition, hosted by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.
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