
Award-winning director joins Barbara Kingsolver in Charlottesville
Barbara Kingsolver, who will speak at the Paramount Theater on April 22 to benefit Virginia Organizing, has announced that a special guest will join her.

Barbara Kingsolver, who will speak at the Paramount Theater on April 22 to benefit Virginia Organizing, has announced that a special guest will join her.

In celebration of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday Wednesday, winners of the 2016 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals gave public talks.

Washington and Lee University professor Domnica Radulescu has published her third novel, “Country of Red Azaleas.”

Peanut allergies among children in the United States has more than tripled, from 0.4 percent in 1997 to 1.4 percent in 2010.

The brackets and seeds for the 2016 NCAA Wrestling Championships were announced Wednesday by the NCAA. Virginia will be represented by five wrestlers.

Redshirt-sophomore Andrew Atkinson and redshirt-senior Patrick Gillen received at-large bids for the NCAA Championships it was announced by the organization on Tuesday.

The return of cold air into this weekend will deliver one to two rounds of snow and slippery conditions along the Interstate 81 and 95 corridors in the Mid-Atlantic.

Kyra Hicks became a believer in quilts as storytellers upon seeing a traveling exhibition of Eva Ungar Grudin’s “Stitching Memories: African-American Story Quilts” in 1990.

By today’s standards, the original Erie Canal was only a tiny ditch. It was about 40′ wide and 4′ deep, dug almost completely by hand over eight years in the early 19th century.

It’s presidential season, and the Waynesboro YMCA is throwing its support to an outsider candidate, a 1-year-old named Zoe.
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