
Day late, dollar short: My emails to Jim Ryan, Carla Williams
Folks, I tried everything to get the people who run the show at the University of Virginia to slow the roll toward hiring Anthony Poindexter as the next football coach.

Folks, I tried everything to get the people who run the show at the University of Virginia to slow the roll toward hiring Anthony Poindexter as the next football coach.

The current inpatient COVID-19 census at Augusta Health is 13, still well down from the high-water marks of the low to mid 60s back in the early fall, with 14 new positives diagnosed at testing sites on Sunday and early Monday.

The Central Shenandoah Planning District Commission is conducting its 10-year Transit Development Plan for BRITE buses, and rider input is requested.

Virginia transit and highway systems are expected to receive more than $8 billion in federal funds over the next five years as a result of the bipartisan infrastructure deal signed into law last month.

The Amazon impact locally appears to have only just started. After the opening of the Amazon Delivery Station in Waynesboro where the Kmart had been located, the multinational technology company appears set to expand its footprint into Fishersville.

Project GROWS has been awarded a $354,000 USDA Farmers Market Promotion Program grant that will support the development, expansion and marketing of the non-profit’s Farmers Market and Mobile Market Programs.

Virginia is reporting 17.2 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population, and our local numbers are in line with the situation statewide, according to data from the Virginia Department of Health.

The Augusta Regional Dental Clinic will participate in Giving Tuesday next week with the goal of raising $6,500 to provide free dental visits to 650 school-aged children in the SAW area by June 2022.

Nearly 3.3 million people voted in the 2021 state election, no doubt spurred by a batch of new laws passed by the Virginia General Assembly in the past two years making it easier to vote.

CAPSAW announced this week the release of the Consolidated Funding Pool Request for Proposal for fiscal years 2023 and 2024.
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