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If Joelle Hackney had had her way when she was 18, she would have started college 2,400 miles from Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), at Humboldt State in Arcata, California. But by the summer after her 2001 graduation from Stuart’s Draft High School in Augusta County, Va., Humboldt’s steep tuition and other logistical considerations forced her to put that dream on hold.
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Virginia Organizing leaders are celebrating a victory after the Rockingham County Board of Supervisors declined to renew the 287(g) agreement with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a meeting Wednesday night.
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The State Board of Elections voted in a special meeting on Wednesday to request that Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli look into allegations of voter-registration dumping in Rockingham County.
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The State Board of Elections is cooperating with the ongoing investigation of an alleged voter fraud case in Rockingham County, according to a statement from the secretary of the State Board of Elections, Donald Palmer, released on Tuesday.
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In “A Father’s Love,” Patricia Ford Copper takes you through a dysfunctional childhood that culminates into a tragedy.
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An innovative art installation, Concatenation, will be hosted in an unlikely site certain to challenge the traditional art-going experience. Virginia-based Italian artist Daniel Rossi and Dutch artist Dymphna de Wild will create site-specific installations in the transformed barn on historic Cobble Hill Farm in Staunton. The barn will be converted into a one-of-a-kind art experience for one day only, Sunday, October 28th from 3-8 p.m.
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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has not been shy about using the resources of his office and taxpayer dollars to tilt at windmills like climate change and abortion regulations. But Cuccinelli is holding back from involving his office in expanding the investigation into alleged voter fraud perpetrated by a Republican group that has already led to one arrest in Harrisonburg.
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A voting-registration supervisor contracted by the Republican Party of Virginia has been arrested in the case involving the discovery of registration forms found in a dumpster outside a Harrisonburg business.
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Delphine Enterprise Management, a real-estate holding company operated by Allied Logistics, announced on Wednesday plans that will breathe new life into a key Waynesboro industrial site, bolstering a push to lure more skilled and high-tech manufacturing jobs to Central Virginia.
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WVPT in Harrisonburg is partnering with The Wayside Theatre to present a special evening of mystery and intrigue. If you enjoy live theater, and would like to show your support for public television, don’t miss this thrilling performance of the classic mystery, “Wait Until Dark” at The Wayside Theatre in Middletown on Friday night, October 26th at 8 p.m.
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