
UVA to move classes online ‘for the foreseeable future’
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan announced Wednesday that the school, in response to the deepening coronavirus outbreak, is moving classes online with a plan to reassess after April 5.

University of Virginia President Jim Ryan announced Wednesday that the school, in response to the deepening coronavirus outbreak, is moving classes online with a plan to reassess after April 5.

Amazon announced on Tuesday plans for two new, state-of-the-art operations facilities in Hampton Roads that will create 1,500 new jobs.

Abigail Spanberger will host a telephone town hall on Friday with local officials and healthcare experts to discuss preparations and suggested precautions related to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Crews will briefly close a short section of Forest Hill Road in Harrisonburg on Thursday to accommodate work related to the realignment of the Interstate 81 North off ramp onto Port Republic Road.

Charlotte Clymer, the press secretary for rapid response at the Human Rights Campaign, will present an endowed lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19, in Cole Hall at Bridgewater College.

Right now, the world is on edge over the novel coronavirus that seemingly came out of nowhere and spread like wildfire throughout the globe.

Harrisonburg Mayor Deanna Reed will deliver the commencement address at Eastern Mennonite University at the school’s May 3 ceremonies.

The Trump administration announced it will resume coal leasing on public lands. A federal judge in Idaho ruled that a Trump administration policy limiting public input on oil and gas leasing decisions was “arbitrary and capricious.”

Dr. Scott H. Suter’s new book, A Potter’s Progress: Emanuel Suter and the Business of Craft, examines how one craftsman in the 1800s cultivated the art of pottery and expanded markets across the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV) has awarded $200,000 in pilot funding to multi-institutional research projects
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