Tobacco remains a top Virginia crop
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Virginia flue-cured tobacco production has rebounded from a decade ago, when the generations-old auction system and federal tobacco quotas ended.
Search Results for REAL ID
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Killing the Mockingbird: Go Set a Watchman rewrites the heroic Atticus Finch
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The Atticus Finch who stood on the right side of justice and history in To Kill a Mockingbird is also the Atticus Finch in Go Set a Watchman who reveals himself as a segregationist, reactionary extremist, a eugenicist. You almost want to wish that the lost manuscript from Harper Lee had never been found. I say almost, because I think it’s better for the telling of To Kill a Mockingbird that it was found, in several ways.
EPA: Chesapeake Bay clean-up progressing in Virginia
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A 2014-2015 interim report card on efforts by Virginia farmers to reduce pollutants reaching the Chesapeake Bay found producers are “generally on-track for meeting programmatic milestones” in a multi-year effort.
Brewing up business growth: Carded Graphics, Vector expanding footprint with craft-beer surge
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Carded Graphics in Staunton, Va., has found a new market in the growth of the craft-beer industry, and it has brought along Vector Industries as an important partner in its effort to serve that fast-developing new retail sector.
Is a new Waynesboro High School the right move?
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The Waynesboro School Board voted last month to go forward with plans to build a new Waynesboro High School, cost and location to be determined later.
Virginia Tech student’s research reveals new, troubling threats to Madagascar wildlife
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Habitat degradation and deforestation are recognized as principal threats to wildlife globally but have especially destructive implications on the island nation of Madagascar, where four out of five of the plant and animal species are found nowhere else in the world.
Willie Watson to Perform at Shelter Fest on Aug. 29
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Willie Watson, formerly of Old Crow Medicine Show, will headline Shelter Fest 2015, a concert to support the homeless and others in need.
A UVA national title: And the pressure is off?
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The UVA sports fan in me is, finally, relaxed. The reason: the national championship in baseball.
Culpeper VDOT District Traffic Alert: July 13-17
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The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week.
Civil War quilts at Virginia Quilt Museum
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Civil War re-enactors must be exhausted after commemorating Civil War battles and camps for the past four years but imagine what life was really like at the end of the Civil War.
