
Forest Service invests $6M in deferred maintenance projects in West Virginia
Monongahela National Forest has received $6 million in funding from the 2020 Great American Outdoors Act to support seven projects across the Forest in 2022.

Monongahela National Forest has received $6 million in funding from the 2020 Great American Outdoors Act to support seven projects across the Forest in 2022.

Completing the game that got suspended Thursday night, the FredNats blasted the Myrtle Beach Pelicans 9-1 for their first win in the series. Myrtle Beach notched their third shutout of the series 3-0 in a 7-inning game two.

The spotted lanternfly quarantine will be expanded to include the following cities and counties: Buena Vista, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, Lexington, Lynchburg, Manassas, Staunton, Waynesboro, Albemarle, Augusta, Carroll, Page, Prince William, Rockingham, Rockbridge, Shenandoah and Wythe.

Two members of the Harrisonburg Fire Department recently graduated from one of the state’s most prestigious fire officer training programs.

Update: Monday, 7:49 p.m. Sierra Beaver Payne has been located, according to a report from The Aware Foundation. There are not any details other than she is alive. She is at a hospital in Williamsburg.

The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the next week.

Augusta Health’s 2022 Excellence in Nursing award recipients were recognized during a special celebration on June 7 at Hotel 24 South.

Virginia Athletics broke ground on its new Football Operations Center last week. Left unsaid until today was that a $5 million anonymous gift had pushed the project past the goal line.

Rachel Baxter, a Virginia Tech pole vaulter, is working with Jay Williams, a professor of human nutrition, foods, and exercise, to study gait symmetry, impact forces, and speed differences among pole vaulters.

Celebrate Americana artist Chris Knight as part of your Independence Day celebrations on Saturday, July 2, at the Lime Kiln Theatre in Lexington.
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