
Culpeper VDOT District Traffic Alerts: Aug. 24-28
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 School of Our Lady, Queen of Peace and Reconciliation, opening in Mount Solon on August 31, offers a holistic approach to education in a small, Montessori-based farm school environment, and focuses on the relationship between the natural world and academics.

One of the sea’s most misunderstood and beautiful creatures, the jellyfish, will be the focus of a new exhibit at the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island, thanks to a $30,000 grant from the Dominion Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Dominion North Carolina Power.

Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore – yes, he was once Virginia’s governor – is apparently not concerned that he is barely registering as a presidential candidate.

The 2015 Special Session of the General Assembly was over before it began.

Attorney General Mark R. Herring announced today that he, along with the Attorneys General of 47 other states and the District of Columbia have reached a $71 million settlement with Amgen Inc. to resolve allegations that the company unlawfully promoted its medications Aranesp and Enbrel.

VMI held its first extended scrimmage of football preseason camp Saturday with the defense having the upper hand throughout the morning workout at Foster Stadium.

Culpeper District traffic information is also available on Twitter at @VaDOTCulp and on VDOT’s website at www.virginiadot.org/travel/travel_alerts/culpeper/default.asp.

The Washington Post has a story about Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and his travel schedule related to the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

The culmination of what was conceived last January during a conversation between Free Nelson Co-Chair Sharon Ponton and Nelson County activist Matt Dwyer will occur when communities in eight states take part in the Aug. 18 Hands Across Our Land.
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