
Northam announces administration appointments
Gov. Ralph Northam announced additional appointments to his administration on Friday.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced additional appointments to his administration on Friday.

The ambitious effort to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine to a new priority group of people in the New River Valley is moving quickly and drumming up excitement in its wake.

Bridgewater College will celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a day of virtual events, “BC Honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” on Monday, Jan. 18.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner has promoted Lauren Marshall to serve as legislative director in his Capitol Hill office, making Marshall one of three current Black legislative directors in the United States Senate.

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service will recognize Virginia’s top Earth Team volunteer Keith Thomas at the Virginia Forage and Grassland Council Winter Forage Conference.

The following is a list of highway work that may affect traffic in the Staunton District during the coming weeks.

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.

Dominion Energy is awarding $500,000 in scholarships in 2021 to assist African American and other underrepresented minority students who reside in the company’s service area.

Liberty coach Hugh Freeze has been named one of six finalists for the 2020 George Munger Collegiate Coach of the Year Award.

Angela L. Navarro was sworn in Tuesday as the 37th commissioner of the State Corporation Commission.
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