
Something to Celebrate exhibit at Staunton Augusta Art Center
The Staunton Augusta Art Center announces a new exhibition, Something to Celebrate, watercolors by Central Virginia Botanical Artists.

The Staunton Augusta Art Center announces a new exhibition, Something to Celebrate, watercolors by Central Virginia Botanical Artists.

The Virginia Horse Center, host of the Rockbridge Regional Fair, which runs July 16-19, has announced that Sherwood Amusements will be furnishing the rides this year, doubling the number from past years.

Motorists should be alert to road and/or lane closures and possible delays as crews under contract to VDOT perform regularly-scheduled safety inspections at the locations listed below, weather permitting.

The following highway work is scheduled; weather permitting, in the Culpeper VDOT District during the upcoming week. Traffic movements may be restricted and speed limits reduced in work zones.

Highway work in the Lynchburg VDOT district requiring road/lane./structure closures is scheduled, weather permitting. Traffic may be restricted.

The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton VDOT transportation district during the coming weeks. The Staunton district is comprised of 11 counties: Alleghany, Bath, Rockbridge, Augusta, Highland, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Frederick, Page, Warren and Clarke.

Part of Route 604 (McClures Mill Road) in Augusta County will be closed for bridge work for about six weeks beginning Tuesday, July 15, 2014. The Virginia Department of Transportation will replace a bridge over Christians Creek with a box culvert.

Will Skinner’s two-run homer off the video board in right-center field gave the Lynchburg Hillcats a 5-4 lead in the bottom of the sixth inning en route to an 8-4 victory against Frederick in front of a capacity crowd of 5,652 fans at Calvin Falwell Field Friday night.

This July, Staunton Parks & Recreation and NRPA are challenging everyone to get out and visit their community parks and recreation during national Park and Recreation Month.

After all the debate, and all the edits, and well before John Hancock and the rest of the signers put quill to paper, this version of the Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776. It was actually a long list of grievances against the King. But what it meant was that we would form our own nation, because we had “certain unalienable Rights” and would no longer tolerate a monarch denying them.
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