
Northam appoints Eric J. Reynolds as Virginia’s first children’s ombudsman
Gov. Ralph Northam announced this week the appointment of Eric J. Reynolds as Virginia’s first director of the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced this week the appointment of Eric J. Reynolds as Virginia’s first director of the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman.

Have you thought of going to school to become a dentist? If so, there are many things you need to take into consideration before applying to a university.

The Charlottesville Mural Project joins the Local Energy Alliance Program to announce four new rolling murals to be painted on LEAP service trucks that visit communities throughout Charlottesville and Central Virginia.

The Governor’s Executive Leadership Team on Highway Safety is announcing Virginia crash statistics for 2020. The final numbers are now available for analysis in the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles’ state-of-the-art automated Traffic Records Electronic Data System, the Commonwealth’s central repository for crash data and related information. In 2020, there was a significant decline in traffic…

Attorney General Mark R. Herring has joined a coalition of 25 attorneys general in calling on the U.S. Senate to pass legislation that protects individuals from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Following an extensive national search, Bridgewater College has selected Stephen Bright to join the College as vice president for finance and treasurer.

If there is an absolute maxim by which the American government seems to operate, it is that the taxpayer always gets ripped off.

Virginia’s unemployment rate dropped two-tenths of a percentage point to 4.5 percent in May, which is 4.0 percentage points below the rate from one year ago.

Caroline Bruton and Kayla Shaller, eighth-graders from William Monroe Middle School in Greene County, placed first in the Junior Group Documentary category of the National History Day contest with their film, “Communicating Through Cell Walls: The Secret Correspondence of American POWs in Vietnam.”

The Central Shenandoah Health District and localities will be hosting a Community Information Team starting Tuesday to support COVID-19 vaccine outreach efforts throughout the health district.
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