Crystal Graham: Top 2023 stories focused on animal welfare, affordable housing, mental health
In case you missed them, reporter Crystal Graham prepared a roundup of her top stories from 2023.
In case you missed them, reporter Crystal Graham prepared a roundup of her top stories from 2023.
Three Augusta County sheriff’s deputies are currently under investigation for allegedly assaulting criminal suspects. Michael Shull, the chair of the Board of Supervisors, has their back.
For the first time ever, Riverheads High School’s yearbook has earned a Virginia High School League (VHSL) Trophy Class award.
Philanthropy comes from the Greek word “philos,” which means loving, and “anthropos,” which means humankind.
In 2023’s final giving cycle, Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative’s charitable-giving program will support 10 area nonprofits.

When you search for Valley ASAP on Google, you get a note in red that reads “temporarily closed.”
Augusta County appears, at the least, to be pushing the boundaries of what it can do under state law with its use of an outside counsel to argue its defense in the FOIA-denial appeal case brought by Augusta Free Press.
The new District 36 includes the cities of Staunton and Waynesboro, southern Augusta and northern Rockbridge counties.
Augusta County resident Randall Wolf is hosting a rally on National Gun Violence Awareness Day Friday from 4-6 p.m. on the lawn outside the Augusta County Courthouse in Staunton.
An architectural firm recently presented its design concepts for the Shenandoah Valley Animal Services Center’s new location planned at the former Verona Elementary School in Augusta County.
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