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The week of December 2-6 was Christmas Week at Staunton Senior Center as every day brought its own special holiday flair. After the Christmas parade on Monday evening, Tuesday brought the Women of Hope duo who presented “An Olde English Christmas: Carols of Our Heritage”, followed by a seasonal craft.
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Oline Wolff-Sneedorff is a 16-year-old Rotary International Youth Exchange Student from Denmark. Now a junior at Robert E Lee High School in Staunton, where she participates in the language club, the Rotary Interact Club, cheerleading and track team, Wolff-Sneedorff hopes to play soccer for the school in the spring.
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The Virginia Board of Education today unanimously approved an A-F grading system that will assign letter grades to schools based on the percentages of students demonstrating proficiency, academic growth and college and career readiness. Initial letter grades will be announced at the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year.
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Two renowned poets are the feature attractions in a reading of new works in a poetry reading at Bridgewater College on Monday, Nov. 11. Two renowned poets are the feature attractions in a reading of new works in a poetry reading at Bridgewater College on Monday, Nov. 11.
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia will offer an election hotline to answer questions from voters who encounter problems at the polls on Election Day. Most problems at the polls arise from a combination of voters not knowing their rights and poll workers not being sufficiently informed about election law.
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The Science Museum of Virginia works to foster science learning throughout the Commonwealth. Despite growing numbers of visitors to Broad Street Station from Northern, Western, and Eastern Virginia, geographic distance remains a barrier for many.
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Nearly nine out of ten Virginia students who entered the ninth grade in the fall of 2009 earned a diploma within four years, and 55.8 percent of the commonwealth’s 2013 high school graduates earned an Advanced Studies Diploma. The statewide dropout rate fell to 5.9 percent for the class of 2013, compared with 6.5 percent for the class of 2012.
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The Fishburne Military School Key Club donated $125 to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to support the efforts of Capt. Matt Rose, an English teacher at FMS.
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The Algebra of Snow is a novel that subtracts most of the allures of a novel—lush setting, multiple characters, and complex plot.
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The Bridgewater College Pinion Players will present a student- directed production, “God of Carnage,” Sept. 26-29 in Cole Hall at Bridgewater College.
