
Who is a senior? ERSC & ERHS bowl
Approximately 16 East Rockingham High School SCA and special-education students joined 14 East Rockingham Senior Center members and staff on a field trip to the Shenandoah T-Bowl on Nov. 12.

Approximately 16 East Rockingham High School SCA and special-education students joined 14 East Rockingham Senior Center members and staff on a field trip to the Shenandoah T-Bowl on Nov. 12.

Small businesses with big entrepreneurial plans sometimes can’t reach their goals due to limited creative manpower. That’s where a special service-learning project at Bridgewater College hopes to make a difference.

Dr. Katrina Powell, director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech, will speak on “Place, Identity, and Eminent Domain: Letters from Shenandoah National Park” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, in Cole Hall at Bridgewater College.

Marine Corp veteran Dave Graf was laid off from his job in 2009, shortly after returning from two tours of duty in Iraq as a helicopter maintainer and gunner. He then decided to use his G.I. Bill benefits and enroll in Blue Ridge Community College where he earned a total of four postsecondary credentials in aviation and automotive maintenance, including two associate’s degrees – all while maintaining a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

It’s the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, and Waynesboro Public Library will be hosting a program about art from the front lines thanks to a grant from The National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Library of America.

George Allen released a statement in response to the November 2012 election results.

Sen. Patty Murray, Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, released the following statement congratulating Tim Kaine on his election night victory in Virginia:

A Baltimore man who supplied synthetic drugs to drug dealers in Central Virginia, pleaded guilty this morning in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Harrisonburg to related drug charges.

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the Virginia Department of Education have a winning equation that results in better nutrition and an economic boost for communities.

As every good businessman knows–including Governor Romney with whom I had been associated as a limited partner at Bain Capital Ventures–the soundness of a company and its ability to create jobs does not rest on lower taxes or tax avoidance–for the company or its senior management.
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