
Culpeper VDOT District Traffic Alerts: May 4-8
The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper VDOT District during the upcoming week.

The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper VDOT District during the upcoming week.

As Americans we get it when folks in other countries have riots for freedom. After all, high school history class thought us about the Boston Massacre, the British response to riotous Bostonians, unhappy with London’s unpopular rule.

I announced my first bid for elective office in 1973 while standing on the steps of the historic Fairfax County Courthouse. Only my immediate family and my secretary and her husband were there to hear me harken back to the Fairfax Resolves of 1774 when the citizens of Fairfax County enumerated their complaints against the Crown.

Today, U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine cosponsored legislation with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and others to better protect local communities by getting unsafe oil trains off the tracks.

Malcolm Brogdon (men’s basketball) and Morgan Brian (women’s soccer) were honored as the top UVA male and female athletes for the 2014-15 academic year at Virginia’s annual awards dinner on Wednesday (April 29) at John Paul Jones Arena.

The UVA baseball team lost to Old Dominion, 3-1, Tuesday evening at Harbor Park in Norfolk, Va. The game was played in front of 6,029 fans, the largest crowd to ever watch a college baseball game in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Brian Whitesell was one of the first holders of a degree in mechanical engineering to work in NASCAR. Which is another way of saying he had to drive his way into the big-time.

Tragedy pushed a young Tim Martin to a career chasing bad guys. His older brother, Edward, was shot in the head at point-blank range during a 1993 robbery. Tim Martin, then 16, was a regular in the courtroom at the trial of the man accused of shooting Edward, then 23, and Edward’s girlfriend, Sheryl L. Stack, 20, who was killed in the shooting.

Gas prices have leaped by double digits in Virginia, climbing 14 cents within the week and 16 cents over the last month, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.

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