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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States with one suicide occurring, on average, every 13 minutes.
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Founded in 2002, AugustaFreePress.com readership continues to grow to levels well beyond our local competitors. While many local sites have jumped behind subscriptions and pay walls, AugustaFreePress.com, and our more than one decade worth of archives, are all open and free to visitors of the site.
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Building on the success of the Mountains 2 Main Streets’ prior collaboration, tourism departments and Main Street organizations from Waynesboro, Harrisonburg and Luray as well as Massanutten Resort and Shenandoah National Park are proud to announce the next phase of the popular destination travel reward program.
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The climate movement has embraced divestment—that is, ditching stocks, bonds or investment funds deemed unethical or morally ambiguous—given how effective the tactic was in helping topple Apartheid in South Africa by shaming the companies still willing to do business there.
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Moms Clean Air Force (MCAF) is a community of 400,000+ parents working to combat air pollution and respond to the climate change crisis.
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The Augusta County that I know and love is full of contradictions, good and bad, black and white, and for the time being, read all over.
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“Art is what you can get away with,” the late American pop artist Andy Warhol once said. But it also may be what you can give away.
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Ebola is frightening – terrifying even – but bowing to the fear that Ebola can produce invites additional unrest and cultural destruction in societies already reeling from recent civil wars.
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Shenandoah Valley country music artist Emma Leigh has been nominated in three categories for the upcoming 2015 Nashville Universe Awards.
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It’s official! AAA, the trusted source for nationwide gas prices, announced the Virginia gas price average fell below $2 per gallon to $1.99 per gallon statewide, the lowest price of gasoline in the Commonwealth since May 2009.
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