
VDOT roads report: March 31-April 4
The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton VDOT transportation district during the coming weeks.

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

Morgan Property Group announced the sale of a future McDonald’s development at the intersection of East Market Street and Country Club Road in the City of Harrisonburg. This will be McDonald’s fifth location in the city.

#1 East Regional seed UVa. is on its way to the World’s Most Famous Arena, Madison Square Garden in New York City, and Augusta Free Press will be at the mecca of basketball to follow the ‘Hoos in their Sweet 16 matchup with #4 seed Michigan State.

On the fourteenth of each month, the anniversary of the Sandy Hook tragedy, I join dozens of others at a vigil at the National Rifle Association headquarters to remind everyone of the need for sensible gun safety measures. After the most recent vigil, I got an email from Erin Nikitchyuk in Newtown, Conn., which I share with her permission to remind us of how we all need to be concerned about this issue.

Senior guard Kirby Burkholder (Bridgewater, Va./Turner Ashby) finished with 20 points and 10 rebounds as the JMU women’s basketball season came to a close with a 85-69 loss at Texas A&M at Reed Arena in College Station, Texas, Tuesday.

The Blue Ridge Parkway is pleased to announce its 2014 season opening schedule. The current schedule for open facilities is presented below and calls for most areas, unless noted otherwise, to be fully operational by May 9, 2014.

Route 11 (Lee-Jackson Highway) will have single lane traffic from March 20 at 9 a.m. to March 24 at 5 p.m. due to sewer line work. This location is from Route 657 (Indian Ridge Road) to Route 1202 (Church Street) in the Greenville area of Augusta County.

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

The Virginia Department of Transportation has extended the closure of a portion of Interstate 64 to March 20 and 21 for bridge work between mile markers 89 and 93 in the Fishersville area of Augusta County. All work is weather permitting.

If you’re like me, you like to think that you aren’t likely to fall for a telephone or email scam – particularly those scams telling of a long-lost family member in a foreign country who has a large inheritance to give you… if only you’ll provide your Social Security number, birth date, and checking account information.
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