
Earth Talk: Earth Day 2014
This coming April 22 will mark the 44th annual celebration of Earth Day, and the focus this year will be green cities.

This coming April 22 will mark the 44th annual celebration of Earth Day, and the focus this year will be green cities.

Join the author of Little Big Minds, Marietta McCarty, in Charlottesville in July, to learn more about her approach as she models her teaching style in sharing philosophy with children.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe, First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe, and Jake Steinfeld, Chair of the National Foundation for Governors’ Fitness Councils announced today their collaboration to combat childhood obesity in Virginia.

Augusta Health Hospice of the Shenandoah’s annual ‘Quilts of Comfort’ auction will be held on Saturday, April 12 at Augusta Expoland in Fishersville.

Abigal Johnson, junior at Robert E. Lee High School, was the Grand Award Winner of the Shenandoah Valley Regional Science Fair at JMU on March 12 and placed second in Environmental Science in the Virginia State Science Fair this past Saturday at VMI

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) called for a review of security procedures at U.S. military installations today following a recent tragic shooting at Naval Station Norfolk in which a Navy petty officer was killed by a shooter who was apparently granted an access card despite a long and violent criminal record, including a previous conviction for manslaughter.

Bob Dinneen’s commentary (Bob Goodlatte and the Renewable Fuel Standard, March 24, 2014) on the federal ethanol mandate is one-sided and omits important information.

Bridgewater College will inaugurate Dr. David W. Bushman as the college’s ninth president on April 11 at 10:30 a.m., on the campus mall.

Keurig K-Cups—those little one-serving coffee containers that allow people to brew one cup at a time in a specially designed Keurig brewing machine—are all the rage these days.

In Virginia, there are more than 46,000 farms owned and operated by individuals and families. The economic impact of the agriculture industry is $52 billion dollars annually and provides nearly 311,000 jobs in the Commonwealth alone.
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