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Top Rope Pro Wrestling has made a $389 contribution to the Virginia Wounded Warrior Program. Top Rope partnered with the Wounded Warriors to put on the Jan. 5 New Year’s Chaos event in Lexington, Va. A representative of the program was on hand at the live pro-wrestling event to talk with fans about Wounded Warriors,…
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The Staunton Downtown Development Association was recently awarded a Main Street Improvement grant valued at $25,000 to fund a temporary performance stage with lighting and amplification in The Wharf.
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A free swap meet to barter used goods with fellow community members. This first official swap is for ladies only. Attendees are encouraged to bring up to two armloads of clothing, accessories, books, and small art/decor/household items to swap. Tables and racks will be available for item display. Attendees are also encouraged to bring snacks and drinks to share, along with a reusable mess kit and clean up bag for personal food use.
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine on Friday joined Vice President Joe Biden, Representative Bobby Scott, mental health experts, and law enforcement officials from Virginia for a roundtable discussion to highlight strategies to reduce gun violence. The event at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond acted as a forum for Kaine and others to outline measures that were taken after the Virginia Tech tragedy to curb incidences of gun violence and mass shootings.
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The culmination of accessibility to locally grown food, artisanal coffee, and sustainably grown agriculture can be found at The Store in the Holiday Court shopping center at 240 N. Central, Unit 4.
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State Sen. Ralph Northam’s campaign for lieutenant governor announced on Wednesday that it raised $224,687 in its first month of operations.
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The Virginia General Assembly voted on Tuesday to confirm Virginia’s first openly gay Circuit Court judge after a controversial battle during the 2012 legislative session over Tracy Thorne-Begland’s sexual orientation.
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, who will serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement after meeting with President Obama’s nominee to be Secretary of Defense, Sen. Chuck Hagel.
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Patients who undergo knee replacement surgery may be at risk of gaining more weight than their peers who have not had the surgery, according to a five-year study led by a Virginia Commonwealth University professor.
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Phyllis Anne Duncan is a retired bureaucrat with an overactive imagination – at least that’s what everyone has told her since she first started making up stories in elementary school prompted by her weekly list of spelling words.
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