
Biosecurity for the birds
All bird owners, whether they have a small backyard flock or a large commercial operation, should make biosecurity part of their daily routines.

All bird owners, whether they have a small backyard flock or a large commercial operation, should make biosecurity part of their daily routines.

The Blue Ridge Parkway is pleased to announce its 2015 opening schedule for seasonal facilities and services.

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.

The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week.

Founded in 2002, AugustaFreePress.com readership continues to grow to levels well beyond our local and statewide competitors.

On a windy Tuesday evening in early March, the Media Center at Stuarts Draft High School hummed with the conversations between volunteers and clients at Valley VITA’s free tax preparation site.

During National Work Zone Awareness Week, observed this year from March 23-27, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) joins the highway contracting community and federal, state and local transportation officials to educate motorists about the potential dangers we all face while driving through work zones.

On November 19, 2014 an article appeared in Rolling Stone magazine depicting a violent sexual assault of a University of Virginia student identified as “Jackie.”

On Friday, March 20th, I spoke at the University of the District of Columbia Law School in Washington, D.C., as part of a series of teach-ins about peace organized by SpringRising.org. While there, a young man in a suit with a Russian accent approached me.

This neighbor drives by Paul Hobbs’ new Watertrough Road vineyard in the Sebastopol countryside many days each week on the way to town. The vineyard borders on five schools with around 700 students.