
Businesses encouraged to prepare plans for natural disasters
Natural disasters can take a natural toll on the course of daily business, even closing businesses for days, weeks or months.

Natural disasters can take a natural toll on the course of daily business, even closing businesses for days, weeks or months.

Construction of a new roadway through the Staunton Crossing development site is scheduled to begin Thursday.
The lack of fire and focus that you saw on the UVA sidelines in Saturday’s 24-3 beatdown at Illinois was something that coach Tony Elliott had seen earlier in the week in practice.
The good news about the UVA offensive line, it seemed, last week, was that senior Jonathan Leech was going to be available for Illinois, and it turns out, Leech would get on the field for 43 of the Cavaliers’ 67 offensive snaps.

Former UVA defenseman Logan Greco is returning to Grounds to serve as a volunteer assistant with the men’s lacrosse program.
Washington and Lee University welcomed 478 new undergraduate students to campus over several days leading up to the beginning of classes on September 8.
In celebration of Feeding America®’s Hunger Action Month™, Food Lion Feeds is remodeling and stocking the shelves of 26 food pantries across its 10-state operating area including five pantries in Virginia.

The Virginia Museum of History & Culture will offer free admission on Saturday as part of Smithsonian Magazine’s 18th annual Museum Day initiative.
A traffic detour will be put in place at the roundabout construction project at U.S. 250 (Rockfish Gap Turnpike) and Route 151 (Critzer Shop Road) beginning at 7 p.m. on Sunday.
“That was a rough day at the office right there,” Virginia football coach Tony Elliott said after his team’s loss to Illinois on Saturday, and he wasn’t just talking about the football part of things.
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