
From 9/11 to COVID-19: It’s been a perpetual state of emergency
Don’t pity this year’s crop of graduates because this COVID-19 pandemic caused them to miss out on the antics of their senior year and the pomp and circumstance of graduation.

Don’t pity this year’s crop of graduates because this COVID-19 pandemic caused them to miss out on the antics of their senior year and the pomp and circumstance of graduation.

Until a few months ago, many companies were staunchly defending their brick-and-mortar offices, the value of IRL collaboration, and the sheer impossibility of opening up their operations to remote work or telecommuting.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has launched an interactive map with state-specific information to help business owners navigate different state-based public health guidelines as they begin to reopen in communities across the nation.

Members of the Staunton-Augusta Family YMCA Afterschool Adventure Club made house visits on Monday, dropping off care packages for students.

The Waynesboro Family YMCA has established a text line to help the community with COVID-19 efforts with support from Dominion Energy.

The Central Shenandoah Office on Youth staff has created a resource page specifically for COVID-19.

The Waynesboro Noon Rotary Club has been looking for ways to help the local community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Forty-five percent of Virginia’s child care centers have closed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, creating a crisis of untold proportions that Gov. Ralph Northam is only belatedly trying to address.

Abigail Spanberger will host a telephone town hall on Wednesday with local superintendents, higher education administrators, and government officials.

The COVID-19 Local Response Fund, launched by a $100,000 donation from a Staunton couple of March 15, has begun making grants and pledges to meet community needs.
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