Thursday’s Events
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Here is a list of events ongoing today in the Central Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia. For a complete rundown of what is on the local events schedule, go to our Calendar of Events.
Search Results for research
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Author explores forced relocation of mountain families in ’30s
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The Shenandoah National Park is breathtaking with its wide vistas and rolling scenery that comes to life in an instant for the millions of visitors who take in our natural wonder every year. But there’s another side to the story of the park that is overlooked even by locals who probably don’t know how the…
At the Movies | Life is just a gumball shower
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I really wanted to see … well, anything else. “The Wrestler.” “Slumdog Millionaire.” “Doubt.” But my young nieces were in tow, so we had to think a little differently. Whicb is how we ended up at Colonial Mall-Staunton on Christmas Day watching Adam Sandler in “Bedtime Stories,” a surprisingly decent holiday movie even in spite…
EMU to send med students to Virginia Tech
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Eastern Mennonite University has signed an articulation agreement with the Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Blacksburg.
Kaine aims to attract green jobs to Virginia
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Gov. Tim Kaine is in on the green-collar revolution. “In today’s economy, we can turn our energy challenges into an opportunity,” Kaine said Monday in announcing his Renew Virginia initiative, which will focus on the development of strategies to attract renewable-energy companies to the Commonwealth and bring their green jobs to Virginia with them.
BC new home to rare natural-history collection
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A natural-history collection including thousands of rare South Pacific seashells, American Indian artifacts from the Ohio Valley, African game animals and preserved specimens of insects has been donated to Bridgewater College.
Waynesboro at a crossroads
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We all knew that we were on the verge of an economic downturn. I was selling one approach to dealing with what was to come – redoubling efforts in the economic-development sphere with an eye toward working to attract new industry in recognition of the apparent fact that the plant on the South River overlooking…
Report | Invista lays off another 300-plus
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Another 335 employees at the Invista plant in Waynesboro are being laid off as part of a company plan to idle part of the local facility’s fibers plant in a move that would seem at first glance to be a sign of the times of the ongoing global economic downturn. But is it the global…
Drew Richardson | The importance of good science in the Obama administration
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Which is President-elect Obama’s most important personnel appointment? Secretary of State? Attorney General? Secretary of the Treasury? The answer is none of them – not even close. I adamantly believe that distinction goes to his Presidential Science Advisor. You ask, “We are in the midst of two wars and our economy is crumbling, and you’re…
EMU prof wins Fulbright
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An Eastern Mennonite University professor has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at the University of Zagreb in the central European nation of Croatia during the 2008-09 academic year.
