
Lane closures at Interstate 64, Exit 91 in Augusta County Sept. 16-18
Overnight closures are scheduled for the Interstate 64 exit 91 eastbound on-ramp from Route 285 (Tinkling Spring Road) in Augusta County.

Overnight closures are scheduled for the Interstate 64 exit 91 eastbound on-ramp from Route 285 (Tinkling Spring Road) in Augusta County.

As the saying goes, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” and Skyland Resort and Big Meadows Lodge in Shenandoah National Park are making sure guests will get their fill of this delicious fruit when they book an overnight in September.

The Virginia Department of Transportation has scheduled overnight lane closures for milling and paving on northbound Interstate 81 in Shenandoah County.

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.

The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton transportation district during the coming weeks.

In honor of Hunger Action Month, Virginia Cooperative Extension’s Family Nutrition Program and the Blacksburg Farmers Market have partnered to host the 2015 Farmers Market Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Challenge from Sept. 13 -19.

UVA football opens its 2015 home season with a 3:30 p.m. kickoff against #9 Notre Dame. The game will be telecast on ABC. Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham will be in the press box at Scott Stadium reporting live with score updates and analysis.

Considered America’s first modern photographer, just as the Civil War is considered the first modern war, Alexander Gardner created dramatic and vivid photographs of battlefields and played a crucial role in the transformation of American culture by injecting a sobering note of realism to American photography.

The Virginia Historical Society announced that its new firearms gallery will be named the Cecil R. Hopkins Gallery, in recognition of a major grant from the Cecil R. and Edna S. Hopkins Family Foundation and in memory of Mr. Hopkins, who established Green Top Sporting Goods in Hanover County, Virginia, in 1947.

You probably blinked at least once during the Republican fire-and-brimstone anti-Iran deal rally this week. Meaning you are likely to have missed that former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, officially, technically, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, addressing the cameras and scattered live observers.
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