
Virginia High School League names Ty Gafford as new assistant director
The Virginia High School League has named former VHSL Executive Committee Chairman Ty Gafford as its next assistant director for compliance.

The Virginia High School League has named former VHSL Executive Committee Chairman Ty Gafford as its next assistant director for compliance.

A Senate committee voted 12-3 Monday to kill a bill that would have repealed a law empowering localities to give employees the freedom to collectively bargain for a contract.

VHSL Associate Director Tom Dolan is one of 15 leaders in high school activity programs across the country selected to receive National Federation of State High School Associations citations.

If CRT were actually taught in schools, a lot more would be put at risk than some people’s psychological distress.

For Virginia Tech students who study forestry, the outdoors is the classroom.

If you live near Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus, chances are good you live in Appalachia, the storied cultural region that meanders through 13 states, from Mississippi to New York.

Once upon a time, there was a government so paranoid about its hold on power that it treated everyone and everything as a threat and a reason to expand its powers.

The concept of irony is obviously lost on John Avoli, who in the course of writing legislation that exposed yet again his prejudices against transgenders and minorities, also shows concern for bullying in schools.

Today’s story will be different in that it will focus on a coach that has very quietly collected over 1,000 career victories spread out over three sports at one small school.

Theater-goers in the Shenandoah Valley will get the first look this winter at an Eastern Mennonite University production that will embark on a European tour in 2022.
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