
Virginia Humanities announces 15 new grants
Virginia Humanities announces $79,700 in recent grants to 15 nonprofit organizations in support of public humanities programs for audiences throughout the Commonwealth and beyond.

Virginia Humanities announces $79,700 in recent grants to 15 nonprofit organizations in support of public humanities programs for audiences throughout the Commonwealth and beyond.

Five nonprofit arts organizations were honored this week as 2019 Dominion Energy ArtStars for inspiring people of all ages in creative endeavors.

Legislation offered by Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, to give federal employees a 2.6 percent pay increase passed the House of the Representatives.

Tony Bennett has a problem. Well, maybe not so much a problem, as a challenge.

U.S. Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) introduced legislation to provide federal employees with a 2.6 percent cost of living increase.

The Wayne Theatre presents Nat Turner’s Last Struggle: Finding His Way Home, a play in one act, on Saturday, Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 3 at 2 p.m.

Rodney A. Robinson, a history teacher at Virgie Binford Education Center in Richmond, is one of four states’ teachers of the year named by the Council of Chief State School Officers as finalists for the 2019 National Teacher of the Year.

The Wayne Theatre in Downtown Waynesboro is presenting a number of programs during the month of February for Black History Month.

Once upon a time, women’s basketball was not taken very seriously, but now more and more people have warmed up to the idea of women’s equality in the sphere of sports.

Members of Congress sent a letter to President Trump on the direct and immediate consequences of the shutdown on housing security for more than four million households across the country.
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