$4.5M in grants available to support veteran suicide prevention, addiction
The Virginia Department of Veterans Services will award $4.5 million in grants to support veteran suicide prevention and opioid addiction services.
The Virginia Department of Veterans Services will award $4.5 million in grants to support veteran suicide prevention and opioid addiction services.
As part of the Veteran Administration’s nationwide goal to house 38,000 homeless veterans in 2022, the Salem VA Healthcare System provided 125 permanent housing placements to homeless veterans.
Amber Lipscomb, a 2008 Stuarts Draft High School graduate, is the new member of Waynesboro School Board.
The Waynesboro Generals announced summer baseball veteran Matty Holem as the team’s new manager.

President Joe Biden last week signed into law a bipartisan bill to provide federal surplus and repairable computers to non-profit computer refurbishers who will then repair and distribute these computers to veterans, students and others in need.
The Memorial seeks veterans of both military events or their family members for a new Virginians at War documentary film titled “One Week in October.”
An eighth-grade student from Roanoke and a high school sophomore from Chesterfield County are first-place winners in the Virginia War Memorial’s 2022 Veterans Day Student Essay Contest.
The last 24 hours have felt like a nightmare for UVA head football coach Tony Elliott, as well as the entire football team and school, the coach said Tuesday during a news conference.
Shenandoah University celebrated the planned renovation of the former National Guard armory located on its main campus, which will serve as the university’s new Hub for Innovators, Veterans and Entrepreneurs, or HIVE, at a groundbreaking ceremony on Veterans Day.
Jason Higgins’ job as a waiter while he was a college student served up more than a paycheck. It became the inspiration for his career.
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