
Safe Routes to School projects take root in the Shenandoah Valley
A number of Safe Routes to School (SRTS) projects have been initiated or completed in the Shenandoah Valley region over the past year.

A number of Safe Routes to School (SRTS) projects have been initiated or completed in the Shenandoah Valley region over the past year.

Drivers on Route 29 (Seminole Trail) in the vicinity of Rio Road will encounter lane closures between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. nightly this week.

All northbound lanes on Interstate 81 have reopened at the sinkhole site at mile marker 284 in Shenandoah County.

A sinkhole has developed along the left side of Interstate 81 northbound at mile marker 284 in Shenandoah County. The left travel lane is closed.

The right lane of northbound Interstate 81 in Rockingham County will be closed overnight Sunday, April 12. The location is near mile marker 248.8 at the bridge carrying Route 720 over the interstate north of Harrisonburg.

Beginning Tuesday, April 14, the ramp from Route 29/250 to Route 250 Business (Ivy Road) east will be closed nightly for bridge inspection work, weather permitting.

Paving season has arrived in Central Virginia, where the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Culpeper District has plans to resurface 322 miles along state-maintained routes in its nine counties.

The Virginia Department of Transportation is scheduled to close part of Interstate 64 in Augusta County on April 6 and 7 from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. each night. The closures are for bridge work between mile markers 89 and 93 in the Fishersville area.

In celebration of Easter, The Greenbrier, the historic destination resort set in the foothills of West Virginia’s Allegheny Mountains, unveiled two holiday-themed chocolate displays this weekend made up of nearly 1,000 pounds of dark, milk and white chocolate.

Guardrail and cable barrier work scheduled for today and tomorrow will close the left lane of Interstate 64 westbound in western Albemarle County.
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