
Albemarle County schools comfort immigrant community after raids nationwide instill fear
The fear of mass immigrant deportations and raids on schools and businesses throughout the nation has led one school to issue a statement.

The fear of mass immigrant deportations and raids on schools and businesses throughout the nation has led one school to issue a statement.

A former Staunton School Board chair and her sister, both facing embezzlement charges, turned themselves in to authorities on Wednesday.
Donald Trump is, for a second time, trying to revive the political spoils system, this time with a new Schedule F executive order in which he is attempting to reclassify tens of thousands of federal employees as political hires.
Jay Matthew Kenyon, 47, of Harrisonburg, was sentenced earlier this month to 15 months in prison for brandishing a knife at police during the Jan. 6, 2021, putsch that Kenyon and thousands of fellow self-styled citizen-patriots led on behalf of Donald Trump.
VDOT has updated the schedules for road work in the Staunton District and Culpeper District for the week of Jan. 20-24.
MAGA aimed to take over Waynesboro in the 2024 election cycle. We did our job, and as a result, our version of Donald Trump is basically neutered politically.

Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP since 2017, will speak Wednesday, Jan. 22, at the University of Mary Washington.
A Harrisonburg man was sentenced to 15 months in prison and fined $2,000 for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.
Members of Waynesboro City Council selected a new mayor and vice mayor at an organizational meeting Monday night.
A Page County inmate has died after collapsing at the jail on Friday night, likely due to an underlying health condition.