Alon Ben-Meir: America at 250 faces a reckoning, and a call to conscience
As the United States marks its 250th anniversary — a testament to endurance, sacrifice, and democratic aspiration — it does so under a dark and foreboding shadow.
As the United States marks its 250th anniversary — a testament to endurance, sacrifice, and democratic aspiration — it does so under a dark and foreboding shadow.
John Glover, who served as the head of the building services division in the City of Staunton government for 26 years, has stepped down from his post.
We hit the halfway mark on calendar year 2026 with Virginia State Police having recorded 307 fatal crashes on our roadways in the first six months of the year.
Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, we live under a government that increasingly behaves as though rights belong to the government to distribute, restrict and revoke as it sees fit.
Two hundred fifty years ago today, July 4, 1776, we were already more than a year into being insurgents, and a long seven years away from actually achieving the independence that we were set to formally declare.
Charlottesville Police have identified two suspects in a shooting reported on Tuesday in the 700 block of 6th Street SE.
A Buffalo Gap High School student died in a Feb. 18 shooting on Maple Leaf Drive in Augusta County that the county sheriff, Donald Smith, said, per a news release, was “an isolated incident involving the illegal sale of handguns.”
Not that there’s a good reason to be in Washington, D.C., for the Fourth of July, but if you’re headed to the nation’s capital for that stupid fake state fair, be prepared for record heat.

A Craigsville man died from injuries in a head-on collision with a USPS box truck in the 2800 block of Parkersburg Turnpike in Augusta County on Wednesday.
Virginia State Police have made two arrests in connection with the shooting death of a Henrico County man on Interstate 295 last fall.
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