
VDOT lifts lane closures during Thanksgiving holiday
Do you have plans to travel for Thanksgiving? Planning ahead for your trip may mean more time with family during the long weekend.

Do you have plans to travel for Thanksgiving? Planning ahead for your trip may mean more time with family during the long weekend.

The Virginia Department of Education and the Virginia Council on the Interstate Compact on the Educational Opportunity for Military Children are recognizing 59 schools as “Purple Star” schools.

Virginia will receive two grants totaling $3,417,315 from the Appalachian Regional Commission’s Partnership for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) program.

Shenandoah Valley Network, Shenandoah Forum, Community Alliance for Preservation in Rockingham and Augusta County Alliance are merging to form the Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley.

VDOT will suspend most highway work zones and lift most lane closures on interstates and other major roads in Virginia from noon Friday, Aug. 31, until noon Tuesday, Sept. 4.

Col. Gary T. Settle, Virginia State Police Superintendent, has announced two executive staff promotions and the retirement of veteran VSP leader, Lt. Col. George L. Daniels Jr.

VDOT will help make July 4 holiday trips easier by suspending most highway work zones and lifting most lane closures on interstates and other major roads in Virginia from noon Tuesday, July 3 until noon Thursday, July 5.

As the summer travel season begins, VDOT is reminding motorists to stay focused on the road while heading to those first celebrations of summer.

Governor Northam and his senior staff participated this week in an exercise to test Virginia’s hurricane response, joining the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM), 18 other state agencies and 39 localities in the simulation.

The weather may have postponed the Food City 500 from Sunday into Monday but rain, sleet and snow, could not slow Kyle Busch in his quest to win the Food City 500 on Monday afternoon at Bristol Motor Speedway.
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