Staunton High School library/media specialist selected as 2023 Region V Teacher of the Year
Staunton High School’s Lori Peltonen, a library/media specialist and educator for 30 years, is the 2023 Region V Teacher of the Year.
Staunton High School’s Lori Peltonen, a library/media specialist and educator for 30 years, is the 2023 Region V Teacher of the Year.
The upcoming Virginia Museum of Natural History branch campus in Waynesboro has reached another major milestone.

New data from WalletHub reveals the best community college system is in Connecticut and the worst is in Ohio.
The 2022-23 school year marked the start of a new partnership between Fishburne Military School and the Wayne Theatre.

UVA Health is teaming with six rural community health organizations in Virginia to provide at-home monitoring.
As part of its recent quarterly meeting this week, the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors discussed what is nationally a very hot topic in higher education: student mental health and well-being.

Business, industry, nonprofit and government leaders from across the Shenandoah Valley have banded together to find solutions to some of the most pressing challenges for economic development in the region.
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An advisor to then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1970 wrote in a re-election campaign memo that free college education would produce a “danger” to society in the form of an “educated proletariat.”

Evidence points to the nation’s need for immigrants and to the value of opening a path to citizenship to individuals who have lived in the U.S. for many years.
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