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– State News: Commonwealth Transportation Board adopts six-year plan – Economy: Initial unemployment claims up slightly – State News: ACLU backs Gloucester residents in case involving attempted removal of supervisors

– State News: Commonwealth Transportation Board adopts six-year plan – Economy: Initial unemployment claims up slightly – State News: ACLU backs Gloucester residents in case involving attempted removal of supervisors

We’ve had a spirited campaign season thus far, and I couldn’t be more excited about our chances this fall with Creigh Deeds as our candidate for governor. For months, the opposition believed that our primary would divide us and hurt our chances of winning in November. We’ve proved them wrong, and I’m so impressed by…

The ongoing news story involving the apparently tainted Iran presidential election hits closer to home than you might think. The key difference being that the controversy over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s 60 percent-plus victory spilled into the streets, while the controversy that still lingers in some circles in Waynesboro over the May 2008 city election is still…

– State News: Virginia to team up with Microsoft on tech training for displaced workers – Event: JMU to host acclaimed poet – Capitol Hill: Warner introduces health-care reform

State and national newspapers, including the Richmond Times Dispatch and USA Today, have reported that Highland New Wind Development is prepared to begin construction by early summer with possible completion by the end of the year. The source of the reported information is the developer’s public relations spokesman, Frank Maisano, who announced in a press…

– Economy: Initial unemployment claims down – State News: Low-interest loans available for dam rehab – State News: Governor announces state-employee health initiative – Event: Lifestyle seminar at local church

The James Madison University football home schedule will include one noon start, three late-afternoon starts, and one evening start, the school’s athletics department announced today.

I’m supposed to be a pragmatist. I run a business, work as a journalist, help manage the day-to-day operations of a baseball team, help direct a local United Way. You’d think I’d take the same approach to politics. Get me a candidate who can win, ideology be damned. And yet I was resistant to the…

From: Downs, Mary Alice Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:28 PM To: Lisa Wooten Subject: the year Hello….. well how goes the Election of 08 year? I thought I would just touch base with you and see if you still have an interest in a move to Waynesboro? My Board is trying to plan for…

I’m taking an intern from UVa. on a drive around the Valley one summer day a few years back. We decided to stop for lunch at Wright’s Dairy Rite in Staunton. It seemed the touristy thing to do. “What’s that over there?” he asked, gesturing at the old Western State Hospital complex, then in use…