
Route 250 at Ivy reduced to one lane Aug. 11-12
The Virginia Department of Transportation advises motorists that Route 250 (Ivy Road) in western Albemarle County will be reduced to one lane from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. next Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Virginia Department of Transportation advises motorists that Route 250 (Ivy Road) in western Albemarle County will be reduced to one lane from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. next Tuesday and Wednesday.

The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton VDOT 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.

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.

Route 635 (Augusta Farms Road) will be closed at the intersection of Route 608 (Tinkling Springs Road) in the Fishersville area of Augusta County nightly from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m., Sunday, August 9, to Thursday, August 13, to replace a portion of the road.

Who knew that the folks at FNC could be hard on Republicans? Well, OK, they were hard on Donald Trump, and they don’t seem to think he’s an actual Republican.

President Obama’s peace speech on Wednesday at American University quoted former President Kennedy: “President Kennedy warned Americans not to see conflict as inevitable. It is time to apply such wisdom.”

Vanessa Pogreba/Hearing Healthcare of Virginia: “As our business grew we noticed our website was not keeping pace with our needs. It also felt out of date and not appealing. We were also not seeing the web traffic we would expect even taking into consideration our clienteles average age. We had our industry’s “GURUs” working on it for over a year and their determination was our area just was not going to produce the results.

Join Staunton’s newest local radio station, WQSV, on August 15th for its first fundraising event at The Pompei Lounge in Staunton. WQSV 106.3 is a project of The Staunton Media Alliance, a budding nonprofit offering community radio for Staunton and parts of Augusta County and Waynesboro.

It’s official. According to a proclamation by Governor Terence R. McAuliffe, Aug. 2-8 is Farmers’ Market Week in Virginia. In the proclamation, Governor McAuliffe says that farmers’ market in Virginia have grown dramatically, from 88 markets in 2006 to nearly 250 in 2015.

The Virginia Department of Transportation has scheduled overnight and early-morning lane closures on Interstate 64 eastbound in Augusta County during the week of August 3-8.
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