
Bridgewater College to honor two alumni during Ripples Banquet
Two Bridgewater College alumni will be honored as part of the college’s annual Alumni Weekend celebration April 17 – 19.

Two Bridgewater College alumni will be honored as part of the college’s annual Alumni Weekend celebration April 17 – 19.

Scandal, one of primetime TV’s biggest hits, has largely portrayed the life of its leading character Olivia Pope, a Washington D.C. crisis manager, as more dramatic than realistic from a professional standpoint.

Today we mark another Equal Pay Day, the symbolic date when women’s salaries finally catch up to men’s salaries from the previous year.

The Wildlife Center of Virginia, a leading teaching and research hospital for native wildlife, will present Hospital Cam – a live, web-based streaming look inside the Center’s veterinary clinic – on Wednesday, April 15, starting at 9 a.m. Eastern.

An analysis released for Equal Pay Day shows just how much damage the gender-based wage gap is doing to Virginia’s families and economy.

On the heels of a record breaking season, The North Augusta Farmers Market’s fourth season is under way! On Wednesdays, noon-5:15 at the market dock in the government center in Verona, Va. Now through October.

Former U.S. senator and potential presidential aspirant Jim Webb told Iowa children’s advocates on Sunday in Mason City that the American political and economic system must create and expand new opportunities for working families to ensure that kids get an “equal shot” at success.

A pair of fellowships will help University of Virginia student Ashley Blackwell fight hunger and discrimination this summer.

Virginians considering adding English ivy, golden bamboo or Japanese barberry to their yards might want to reconsider. Those plants and 87 others are on the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation’s new list of non-native invasive plants at dcr.virginia.gov.

DuPont Community Credit Union (DCCU) recently announced the winners of its annual scholarship contest. Over the last 20 years, DCCU has awarded nearly $250,000 in scholarship funds, helping hundreds of students continue their education.
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