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The Alzheimer’s Association is inviting Staunton, Waynesboro and Augusta County residents to unite in a movement to reclaim the future for millions by participating in the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s. Gypsy Hill Park will be the site of Walk on Satuday, Sept. 29 at 8 a.m.
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With the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War now into its second year and attracting visitors to the Commonwealth from around the nation, Gov. Bob McDonnell announced 11 state grant awards to organizations working to conserve historic battlefield lands for present and future generations of Americans.
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Thanks to a national competition to find the “Prettiest Painted Places in America,” people across the country are discovering what Virginia residents have long known: the Commonwealth has some of the most beautiful towns and neighborhoods to be found anywhere.
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Barack Obama has had a consistent small but relatively safe lead in the polling done in the Virginia presidential race over the course of the past several months. Fellow Democrat Tim Kaine, meanwhile, has been stuck in a virtual dead heat in his U.S. Senate race with Republican George Allen dating back to mid-2011. Begging the question, What gives?
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The Clann Mhor Organization of researchers will present its lecture/slide show on the building of the tunnel that connected the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Shenandoah Valley.
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The Atlantic Coast Conference Council of Presidents has unanimously voted to accept the University of Notre Dame as a new member. The Irish will compete as full members in all conference sponsored sports with the exception of football which will play five games annually against league programs.
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The University of Virginia Darden School of Business is proud to announce the winners of the 2012 Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards Competition.
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The 2012 Democratic and Republican Party platforms spell out what party leaders believe will address the needs of the American people. However, will they include a plank that acknowledges and addresses the fact that our nation spends more than all others on medical research and healthcare yet still has one of the highest infant mortality…
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I joined more than 100 other millionaires from more than 50 cities in signing a Voices for Progress letter to Congress strongly opposing prolonging these special tax breaks. We who have the most income need these breaks the least —and it’s just not right to ask others to pay for them.
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Super PACs that filed monthly reports with the Federal Election Commission spent $29.6 million in July, according to a report by MapLight, a nonpartisan research organization that tracks money’s influence on politics
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