Telephone assistance plan helps low-income Virginians stay connected
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Staying connected and having access to local emergency services and community resources is more important than ever.
Search Results for housing
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Quarantine boredom buster leads to budding small business
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COVID-19 forced Jarred Green and college students like him across the country to leave their campuses in March and move back home.
Bipartisan call for JMU Board of Visitors to allow student participation in upcoming board meeting
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A bipartisan group of local, state and student leaders took a united stand for transparency at James Madison University today, sending a joint letter to the Board of Visitors urging them to allow online participation for students and their families in the Sept. 18 meeting.
Staunton City Council briefed on how the city is using its CARES Act dollars
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The City of Staunton has already spent or committed roughly half of the $4.35 million that it has been allocated under the federal CARES Act to mitigate impacts on government operations, schools and the economy from the public health response to COVID-19.
States exhausting $300 LWA payments: FEMA clarifies program will cover six weeks of benefits
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Nearly seven weeks after the $600-per-week enhanced federal unemployment benefit enacted under the CARES Act expired, 34 states still have not initiated the $300 payments under the Lost Wages Assistance program.
New Virginia laws on gambling, statues, guns
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Several new laws took effect in Virginia on July 1st, spanning gun sales, marijuana possession, abortion rights, voting, confederate statues, and casino gambling.
City of Harrisonburg begins update of comprehensive zoning, subdivision ordinances
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An update to two key City of Harrisonburg ordinances is underway, as city staff works to make the documents more streamlined, clear and user-friendly.
Finding a home with the Hoge family
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Irving Peddrew III was accepted into Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1953, but it was being welcomed into a Blacksburg couple’s house on East Clay Street that helped him feel at home.
Governor announces $4M to expand legal aid services for Virginians facing eviction
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Gov. Ralph Northam today announced $4 million in funding for the Legal Services Corporation of Virginia, which will support 20 Legal Aid attorneys in providing services to Virginia tenants facing eviction for the next two years.
Harrisonburg Rockingham Living Wage Campaign set to mark first anniversary
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The Harrisonburg Rockingham Living Wage Campaign, a project of the Richmond-based Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, continues to work to inspire businesses to pay employees a living wage in order to keep them out of poverty and homelessness.
