
Virginia State Parks hiring hundreds for part-time, full time positions in 2022
There are numerous opportunities to join the team at one of Virginia’s 41 spectacular state parks.

There are numerous opportunities to join the team at one of Virginia’s 41 spectacular state parks.

In what we can only hope was Tina Thompson’s last game at JPJ as the Virginia women’s hoops coach, the Cavaliers lost 68-57 to #18 North Carolina on Thursday night. Hey, it wasn’t a forfeit.

Virginia Tech researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine are developing a vaccine to combat the disease that has a near 100 percent mortality rate in newborn piglets.

Wake Forest was on our Should Be In line on Monday, but we have to give serious consideration to dropping the Deacs back to Work to Do after that disastrous loss to Clemson on Wednesday.

Staunton Fire Chief Scott Garber has been named the Virginia Fire Chief of the Year, in awards announced by Gov. Glenn Youngkin this week.

For the filing week ending Feb. 19, the figure for seasonally unadjusted initial unemployment claims in Virginia was 1,610, a decrease of 363 claimants from the previous week.

The seven-day average of new COVID cases in Virginia is at its lowest point since Dec. 5, before the beginning of the two-month-long Omicron surge.

Since 1959, visitors have been drawn to Highland County to tour real maple sugar camps for a cultural and culinary adventure. The tradition of the Highland County Maple Festival in Virginia returns March 12-13 and 19-20.

All 396 Virginia ABC stores will return to normal operating hours on Tuesday, March 1. ABC stores have been observing reduced hours since Jan. 24, opening daily at noon in response to increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases making staffing difficult.

The conventional wisdom going into Wednesday’s Virginia-Duke game had it that Virginia needed a win just to stay in the conversation for an NCAA Tournament bid. Mike Krzyzewski, after the Duke win, was calling bs on that premise.
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