
Culpeper VDOT District Traffic Alerts: Oct. 26-30
The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week. Traffic movements may be restricted and speed limits reduced in work zones.

The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week. Traffic movements may be restricted and speed limits reduced in work zones.

The 2016 Governor’s Conference on Agricultural Trade will be held March 7 and 8 at the Hilton Richmond Downtown.

Last spring the athletis directors of Hargrave Military Academy, Fishburne Military School, Massanutten Military Academy, and Randolph-Macon Academy wanted to start a football conference for their military schools, and the Patriot Military School Conference was born.

The Longwood men’s and women’s basketball teams have picked up three additional game broadcasts on ESPN3 and American Sports Network (ASN) as part of the Big South Conference’s partnership with the two networks.

After the House select committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya conducted its daylong hearing today, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) released this statement on the need to move forward on the State Department’s preferred location for a Foreign Affairs Security Training Center (FASTC) at Fort Pickett near Blackstone, Virginia.

When President Lincoln was assassinated, it took nearly 12 days for the news to travel from North America to Europe. That was the fastest means possible, as messages were passed from overland cables to steamship and back to overland cables. That is until a revolutionary invention: the transatlantic cable.

Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today that Virginia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) has been awarded a $982,400 federal grant from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to help establish Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) across the state.

Governor Terry McAuliffe today announced that Virginia death, marriage and divorce certificates are now available at all DMV customer service centers and DMV 2 Go mobile customer service centers, as an expansion of the partnership between the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and the Virginia Department of Health (VDH)’s Division of Vital Records.

Governor Terry McAuliffe tonight announced the selection of Natalie DiFusco-Funk, a fifth-grade teacher at West Salem Elementary in Salem, as the 2016 Virginia Teacher of the Year.

This December, the holiday tree at Virginia’s Executive Mansion in Richmond will be adorned with ornaments handmade by artisans/artists from communities all over Virginia in honor of the theme, “Celebrating Virginia’s Localities.”
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