
Blue Ridge Health District to expand COVID-19 vaccination to Phase 1b
The Blue Ridge Health District will expand vaccination to Phase 1b priority groups at closed point of dispensing COVID-19 vaccination clinics beginning on Monday.

The Blue Ridge Health District will expand vaccination to Phase 1b priority groups at closed point of dispensing COVID-19 vaccination clinics beginning on Monday.

The New River Health District has begun administering the COVID-19 vaccine to a new group of people — essential employees who work directly with the public and those ages 75 and older.

A small group of biology students at James Madison University began combing through data during the fall semester, looking for potential experiments to run in future semesters to kick off a four-year research program backed by $1 million from the National Science Foundation.

Two years ago, Waynesboro Schools Superintendent Dr. Jeff Cassell mentioned the possibility of the school system having to cut positions to balance the budget for the first time since The Great Recession.

The Vaccination Task Force at Augusta Health is working closely with the Central Shenandoah Health District on planning to vaccinate those in the community who are in Virginia’s Phase 1B.

Every day we see, hear, smell and process the world around us. But Karen Rosasco takes her observations and immortalizes them in art. Her work is on exhibit this month at CoArt Gallery in “Kaleidoscope.”

In my first years in the General Assembly there was a debate over several sessions about adding guidance counselors in the elementary schools.

In spring, when 17-year-old John R. Lewis High School student Kadija Ismail, of Springfield, learned she’d been accepted into the Virginia Tech Pathways for Future Engineers program, she wasn’t sure she fit the bill as a future engineer.

Every year, The Shenandoah National Park Trust donates money to help Shenandoah National Park with a variety of projects. This year the Trust plans to support the park with up to $1 million in donations for new and ongoing projects.

Northern Virginia State Del. Lee Carter formally announced his candidacy for the 2021 Democratic nomination for governor on Friday.
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