
How COVID-19 restrictions are impacting Virginia Athletics
Virginia Athletics, citing budget shortfalls 10 months into COVID-19, is reducing staffing levels and not filling open positions.

Virginia Athletics, citing budget shortfalls 10 months into COVID-19, is reducing staffing levels and not filling open positions.

Virginia Tech availed itself well in its first game without star guard Tyrece Radford, winning 62-51 at Notre Dame on Wednesday, holding the Irish to a season-low in points in the process.

Crown Holdings will invest $145 million to establish a manufacturing operation in Henry County.

The schedule released Thursday for the 2021 UVA football season should help sell season tickets.

Rockbridge County cattle and small grains producer Russell L. Williams II was recognized Jan. 26 for five years of service on the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation board of directors.

UVA junior Rebecca Hawkins bettered her career-best jump from the Virginia Tech Invitational by clearing 1.76m (5’9.25”).

Arts Council of the Valley opens two new virtual exhibitions in February: a landscape series by John Hancock, and posters reflecting on the Black Lives Matter movement by JMU architectural design students.

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

No. 22 Virginia advanced to the championship match at ITA Kickoff Weekend in Columbus, Ohio, after downing Iowa by a 4-0 score on Friday.

Since the discovery of carbon fibers by Roger Bacon in 1958, they are common in the industrial arena, and have been used in a plethora of applications including, airplane, vehicle, nanotechnology, and space industries.
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