
United Way seeks community input as part of strategic planning
United Way of Staunton, Augusta County & Waynesboro has launched a Community Survey to assess the needs of the community.

United Way of Staunton, Augusta County & Waynesboro has launched a Community Survey to assess the needs of the community.

Voters wishing to cast a mail-in ballot in the Nov. 2 elections have until 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 22 to request a ballot be sent to them.

Several months ago, Harrisonburg Public Works asked the community to help come up with a name for The Friendly City’s newest shared-use path.

A week-long competition among the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets’ 14 companies netted more than 15,000 canned food items and a $3,600 cash donation — the largest one-time donation ever received by the Agape Center NRV’s food pantry in Christiansburg.

New Dominion Bookshop will host a poetry reading and book launch with UVA professor and poet Lisa Russ Spaar on Saturday, Nov. 6, from 4-5 p.m.

Days before leaving to fly halfway across the world, Bryce Andonian wondered about the people, the food, and the language as he prepared to spend a week in Russia.

New Dominion Bookshop will host a poetry reading and audience Q&A with poet, doctor, and UVA alum Laura Kolbe on Friday, Nov. 5, from 7-8 p.m.

It took Virginia Tech a while to shake off Richmond, but a Connor Blumrick third-quarter TD run gave the Hokies some breathing room, and the D took over from there, in a 21-10 win over the Spiders on Saturday.

COVID-19 vaccines have been widely available since spring, yet across rural southwest and southern central Virginia, not a single county had more than 40 percent of its population fully vaccinated in mid-August, according to the Virginia Department of Health.

Virginia welcomes the decision from the CDC to support booster shots for some who have received the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
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