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Heading into last season’s home finale against rival Virginia Tech, Mike London was on top of the world. His UVa. football team was 8-3 after a stretch with six wins in seven games, including wins on the road at Miami and Florida State. London could do no wrong.
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Barack Obama and Tim Kaine are looking good in Virginia in 2012. And then you look ahead to 2013, and it looks again like Republicans have the inside track to a statewide sweep.
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The Staunton Music Guild recently accepted a $1,000 check in honor of the late Ray Houser during the closing ceremonies of the Greater Augusta Chamber of Commerce’s Good Times, Tastes & Traditions Festival.
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The Shenandoah Valley Spay/Neuter Clinic will perform its 100,000th surgery since opening in January 2005 on Monday, Sept. 24th. This milestone marks the ongoing success of the Clinic.
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The SWAG Writers (Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta Group of the Blue Ridge Writers Club) Reading Series continues with a reading and talk by Inman Majors, award-winning author of Love’s Winning Plays (W.W. Norton, August 2012) and three previous novels.
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Crossroads to Brain Injury Recovery is pleased to announce its newest board member, Jacob Penrod, Esquire, of Hoover Penrod PLC.
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Josef Beery will draw upon his almost three decades of experience in printmaking and publication design when he speaks at “Conversations about Art” on Monday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
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Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was unchanged in August at 5.9 percent, but was down 0.5 percentage point from August a year ago.
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Ever since I became the Commissioner of Agriculture two years ago and gained a broader view of agriculture throughout the entire state, I have noticed that Virginia really values its farmers. Of course agriculture is the state’s largest industry, and I’m sure that earns us some points right there. But I think there is a deep-seated appreciation of our farmers in Virginia and a realization of how much they contribute to our quality of life.
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While a U.S. Census report released today shows that poverty is easing and the economy may be bottoming out, the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank reports that the hunger continues to be a growing problem, especially among people just above the poverty line.
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