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Mark Warner, Tim Kaine join letter urging president to move on VA claims backlog

Published date: April 29, 2013 | 5:15 pm

Updated: May 13, 2025 | 8:18 pm

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) today sent a letter to President Obama urging him to take action to reduce the current backlog of veterans’ disability claims. Currently, the average claim takes over 300 days to be resolved. In the letter, Sens. Warner and Kaine, who were joined by 65 other members of the Senate, cited long delays in cities across the country in making the case for swift action to reduce the backlog.

WVPT welcomes back Spring Online Auction

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Published date: April 29, 2013 | 10:08 am

WVPT’s Spring Auction is back! Featuring hundreds of donated items, the online auction—to benefit WVPT Public Television—will be held May 2-14.

Shenandoah Valley Art Center to open Kristin Reiber Harris exhibit on May 2

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Published date: April 29, 2013 | 9:58 am

Updated: May 5, 2013 | 10:11 am

The Shenandoah Valley Art Center is holding an Opening Reception on Thursday, May 2, 5:00-7:00pm, to open an exhibit of the artwork of Kristin Reiber Harris, which explores printmaking, bookmaking, and collage.

Shenandoah Valley Art Center: May 2013 Calendar of Events

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Published date: April 24, 2013 | 12:12 pm

Updated: April 24, 2013 | 12:13 pm

The Shenandoah Valley Art Center, during the month of May, is exhibiting the artwork of Kristin Reiber Harris which explores printmaking, bookmaking, and collage. One series features large woodcuts of plants reflected in water and celebrates the object as no more real than the reflection.

Misa’s Fugue to make its Staunton debut

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Published date: April 23, 2013 | 7:10 pm

Before moving to Staunton last summer, Robert E. Lee High School social studies teacher Jennifer Goss had the privilege of documenting the story of Holocaust survivor, Frank Grunwald. The resulting film, Misa’s Fugue, has since garnered several awards and been selected to play in several prestigious film festivals throughout the world.

Barbara Coombs Lee: Toward death with dignity

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Published date: April 22, 2013 | 8:44 pm

Today, all across America, people with end-stage cancer, ALS (often referred to as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease”) and other diseases are nearing the end of life. They and their loved ones are struggling to grieve and cope. Enamored by medical wizardry to forestall death, we can barely grasp what’s going on when the time comes to say good-by to a parent or spouse. Yet a time does always come when modern medicine either cannot forestall death, or only at the price of great suffering.

Kathleen Rogers: Earth Day lessons

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Published date: April 22, 2013 | 8:39 pm

If you have any sense of wonder or faith in humanity, you would have to agree that Earth Day is an extraordinary event. It combines the functions of educator, movement builder and the largest public service project in the world. More than 1 billion people from almost every single country on earth will take an action in service to our planet.

VDOT road-work report for April 22-26

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Published date: April 21, 2013 | 11:05 am

Updated: May 6, 2025 | 7:19 pm

The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton VDOT transportation district during the coming weeks. The Staunton district is comprised of 11 counties, Alleghany, Bath, Rockbridge, Augusta, Highland, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Frederick, Page, Warren and Clarke.

A special evening at Barren Ridge Vineyards

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Published date: April 18, 2013 | 8:32 pm

Updated: April 18, 2013 | 8:50 pm

Join the Staunton Augusta Art Center for a special evening at Barren Ridge Vineyards at 6:00pm, Sunday, May 5.

Report: Virginia earns ‘A’ grade from small businesses for second year in a row

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Published date: April 18, 2013 | 10:39 am

Thumbtack.com, in partnership with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, has released the second-annual Thumbtack.com Small Business Friendliness Survey showing that Virginia continues to be a top state for small businesses, earning an ‘A’ grade for the ease of starting a business in the state and an ‘A’ overall.

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Mark Warner, Tim Kaine join letter urging president to move on VA claims backlog

WVPT welcomes back Spring Online Auction

Shenandoah Valley Art Center to open Kristin Reiber Harris exhibit on May 2

Shenandoah Valley Art Center: May 2013 Calendar of Events

Misa’s Fugue to make its Staunton debut

Barbara Coombs Lee: Toward death with dignity

Kathleen Rogers: Earth Day lessons

VDOT road-work report for April 22-26

A special evening at Barren Ridge Vineyards

Report: Virginia earns ‘A’ grade from small businesses for second year in a row

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