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Can text messages help assuage the phenomenon of “summer melt,” when students, mostly lower on the socio-economic spectrum, fail to enroll in college even after they have been accepted?
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The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week. Traffic movements may be restricted and speed limits reduced in work zones. (NEW) or (UPDATE) indicate revisions since last week’s report.
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It’s been eight months now since my father died. I knew I should expect some depression but not like the pain I feel every day. I thought by now I would be feeling a little less sad. It’s not working that way at all. I have an emptiness that hurts.
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It was one of those days where the heat takes your breath away. It was mid-summer in our nation’s capital and the sun beat down on the marble monuments and city sidewalks. I squinted my eyes and stood shoulder to shoulder with members of my staff handing out water bottles as our guests filed off of the buses, slowly but determined, one by one. They were eager. And so were we.
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The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton transportation district during the coming weeks. The Staunton district is comprised of 11 counties: Alleghany, Bath, Rockbridge, Augusta, Highland, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Frederick, Page, Warren and Clarke.
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Project GROWS, a non-profit educational farm located in Augusta County, will host its first-ever Celebration to benefit Project GROWS on Friday, Nov. 20 at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel in Downtown Staunton.
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Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham leads our live coverage of today’s ACC football showdown between UVA (3-5, 1-3 ACC) and Miami (5-3, 3-2 ACC). The game kicks off at 3 p.m. Chris will provide score updates, stats, analysis, commentary and more. Feel free to join in with your own observations, commentaries and questions.
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During her sabbatical, Eastern Mennonite University English professor Marti Eads is studying how, in one author’s fiction, “the Civil War conflict reverberates in one Appalachian community even after most people there are no longer consciously aware of its relevance.”
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A large segment of UVA football fans have had Nov. 28 marked on their calendars as the final day of the six-year nightmare that has been the Mike London era. Whether or not it will be London’s last game mostly looking confused on the sidelines at Scott Stadium remains to be seen, but we now know that it will be the final game that Frank Beamer will coach in the state of Virginia.
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Overnight lane and off-ramp closures are scheduled for next week at the Interstate 64 interchange at exit 91 (Route 285/Fishersville) in Augusta County. These closures are for milling and paving of the westbound off-ramp. All work is weather permitting.
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