Chill seekers raise $1.55 million for Special Olympics Virginia at Polar Plunge
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The 2023 Polar Plunge was held Feb. 3-4 in Virginia Beach and plungers and runners raised more than $1.55 million for Special Olympics Virginia.
Search Results for Teacher of the Year
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Tent City is not the solution: But Waynesboro doesn’t seem to care about its homeless
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Tent City, out of sight, out of mind, allowed Waynesboro to pretend for years that it doesn’t have a problem with homelessness. The bill was bound to come due.
Head Start could hire work-study college students with new legislation
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Legislation reintroduced yesterday would allow Head Start programs to employ work-study college students in part-time positions.
Staunton City Council to choose five candidates to interview for vacancy
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Twenty candidates are vying to replace former Staunton mayor Andrea Oakes on city council in an appointment that will be decided upon by council members.
Now the gun lobby wants to put JR-15s in the hands of our children
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Days in January: 31. Number of mass shootings in the US as of January 24: 39. (I pray the number hasn’t gone up by the time you read this.)
Evil walks among us: Child trafficking has become big business in America
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It takes a special kind of evil to prostitute and traffick a child for sex, and yet this evil walks among us every minute of every day.
Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee advances life-saving gun safety bills
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The Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced a bill aiming to put measures in place for gun safety.
Letter: Did we elect Bob Good to wreck Washington, or to work for us?
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The new Congress just kicked off, and while it would take a lot for Bob Good to sink lower than his ardent support for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, that hasn’t stopped him from trying.
Charlottesville theater students win national award
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Theater students from DMR Adventures in Charlottesville won a Freddie G. Excellence in Acting award and other recognition at the 2023 Junior Theater Festival Atlanta (JTF Atlanta).
For the love of Vivian: Six students awarded free arts instruction through scholarship
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Six students were selected for free arts instruction through a scholarship created by the family of Vivian Christy Sansoni.
