
Pamplin Historical Park to host living history event on Aug. 27-28
Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier remembers the Allied victory over Imperial Japan with a living history event on Aug. 27-28.

Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier remembers the Allied victory over Imperial Japan with a living history event on Aug. 27-28.
The big winner for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2022, was K-12 public education in Virginia. The Virginia Lottery had record-setting profits in 2021-22 which resulted in a distribution of $779.6 million for public schools.
Mulu Slawta, a student at Boys Home in Covington, recently completed a college orientation workshop at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington.
Jacob and Jennifer Gilley of Orange County recently were named this year’s Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmers Excellence in Agriculture award winners.

Arts Council of the Valley announces two new exhibitions at Smith House Galleries during September.

Scholars Latino Initiative (SLI) celebrates 10 years this year as a Virginia nonprofit and announced Stephania Cervantes as its first managing director.
A newly-formed nonpartisan democracy reform collective called UpVote Virginia officially launched today at an event featuring a bipartisan lineup of elected officials.

The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority has chosen Vida Williams as its first chief digital and branding officer.

Eastern Virginia landowners new to forest land ownership or forest management are invited to the annual Beginning Woodland Owners’ Retreat, which will be held on Sept. 9-10.
Virginia’s Community Colleges are gearing up to train thousands of workers to help rebuild the commonwealth’s aging roads and bridges and bring much needed upgrades to airports, ports and utilities statewide.
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