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– Local News: Rose named grand marshal of Valley 4th parade – Local News: Rockingham seeks Auxiliary Deputy applicants – Local News: Drinking Liberally meeting next week – State News: Organizing for America announces Virginia staff

– Local News: Rose named grand marshal of Valley 4th parade – Local News: Rockingham seeks Auxiliary Deputy applicants – Local News: Drinking Liberally meeting next week – State News: Organizing for America announces Virginia staff

– State News: Second Virginia swine-flu death reported – Local News: Work continuing on I–81 interchange in Harrisonburg – State News: Grants for Virginians with disabilities

Unemployment ticked up a bit across the Valley in May, though the slight increases were called seasonal by a Virginia Employment Commission economist today. Waynesboro still has the highest unemployment rate locally, at 9.1 percent, up from the 8.8 percent mark in April, according to VEC data released today. Staunton was up from 6.9 percent…

Harrisonburg-based DIGICO is now the proud owner of two 2009 Telly Awards. DIGICO won a silver Telly for a 60-second kiosk video created for Rosetta Stone, the leading language-learning software company in the world, titled “Best Gift.” The video depicts a family using Rosetta Stone software for the first time, and ends with branding animation…

– Local News: Street closing in Harrisonburg – Capitol Hill: Webb, Warner announce health-center grants – Local News: Wintergreen placing land into preservation – Local News: BC alum honored for Christian service

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Foundation today announced that its Board of Trustees has appointed Peter F. deVaux as Honorary Chair of the Foundation, the third person so honored in the 71 year history of the Foundation. The Foundation also announced the election of Stephan W. Milo of Staunton, Virginia; Haskell Rhett of Afton, Virginia;…

Fanfares and flip-flops. Handel’s massive story of Samson and two short works written within the past year. A call to hope arising from the ashes of New York’s World Trade Center. The 17th annual Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival at Eastern Mennonite University combined serious music with casual dress, Baroque masterworks with contemporary compositions and painful…

State money going to support programs to improve criminal-justice services across the Commonwealth will be flowing to a few worthy programs in the Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia. The Collins Center and First Step Inc. in Harrisonburg will receive funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, more popularly referred to as the…

– Capitol Hill: Perriello, Hoyer, to discuss PAYGO at UVa. – Local News: New traffic pattern at Exit 247 interchange in Harrisonburg

Hunger. Child soldiers. Orphaned children raising siblings. Such tragedies might readily connote despair – but not to three African women who studied this year at Eastern Mennonite University’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute. When these women, attending their first SPI session, speak of the staggering tasks they and their colleagues have undertaken to heal lives and communities,…
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