
Richmond Flying Squirrels release 2022 season promotional schedule
The Richmond Flying Squirrels have revealed their promotional schedule for the upcoming 2022 season.

The Richmond Flying Squirrels have revealed their promotional schedule for the upcoming 2022 season.

Virginia Tech’s fourth Giving Day resulted in 15,787 alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents, and friends coming together to give over $8.4 million in support.

The legacy of James I. “Bud” Robertson Jr. lives eternally in the hearts and minds of those he educated.

The seventh annual Uplifting Black Men Conference, to be held virtually on Saturday, Feb. 19, borrowed its theme of “Lift Your Voice” from a beloved source: the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” widely considered the Black national anthem.

“Omicron,” mused a student in Assistant Professor of political science Mauro Caraccioli’s fall 2021 Plagues, Pandemics, and Politics class. “Doesn’t that sound like a Transformer?”

“If everybody became a poet the world would be much better,” Nikki Giovanni once wrote. “We would all read to each other.”

A Senate committee voted 12-3 Monday to kill a bill that would have repealed a law empowering localities to give employees the freedom to collectively bargain for a contract.

The Internal Revenue Service kicked off the 2022 tax filing season with an urgent reminder to taxpayers to take extra precautions this year to file an accurate tax return electronically to help speed refunds.

The Virginia Information Technologies Agency and Virginia’s Office of Data Governance and Analytics are encouraging all Virginians to take action right now to learn about online privacy.

If you live near Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus, chances are good you live in Appalachia, the storied cultural region that meanders through 13 states, from Mississippi to New York.
Local news is in “serious jeopardy,” according to experts. Pitch in and help AFP continue to deliver news to the Valley, Virginia and beyond.