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Recently released Tree ID app can help homeowners, gardeners

Published date: January 24, 2013 | 10:59 am

Updated: January 28, 2013 | 9:53 pm

Just what is that strange shrub planted next to your new house? Or what are those trees in the park that are setting off your allergies? A new smartphone app for the Android operating system can help provide some answers. The Virginia Tech Tree ID app combines extensive online forestry fact sheets and photos with a smartphone’s portability and global positioning technology. Users can search for an identifying match or upload a photo and ask a Virginia Tech forestry expert for help.

EQIP program provides funding for forest landowners

AFP

Published date: January 24, 2013 | 10:56 am

Are you interested in improving the health and productivity of your forest land but don’t know where to start? The Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF) and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) can offer expert advice and financial assistance to help you better manage your property.

Hurt comments on ‘No Budget No Pay’

Chris Graham

Published date: January 23, 2013 | 2:51 pm

Updated: May 15, 2025 | 7:39 pm

Congressman Robert Hurt (R-Virginia) on Wednesday released the following statement after voting in favor of the “No Budget No Pay Act”:

BRCC schedules events for Black History Month

AFP

Published date: January 23, 2013 | 2:44 pm

Updated: March 24, 2025 | 10:25 am

Blue Ridge Community College welcomes two of the historic Tuskegee Airmen for a Black History Month event on Tuesday, Feb. 5, in the Plecker Workforce Center auditorium from 12:30-2 p.m. Grant S. Williams, Sr. and Harry Quinton, both of Tidewater, VA, will recount their memories of serving with the famed Tuskegee Airmen: the first African-American military aviators, mechanics, and air crews in the United States armed forces. A reception will follow in room P126B.

State Senate Democrats fight on Dream Act bill

AFP

Published date: January 23, 2013 | 2:41 pm

Senate Democrats are proposing legislation that would grant in-state tuition at Virginia colleges to young people with Deferred Action status, allowing them full access to the benefits of a college education for the first time in history. The Virginia Dream Act sets out standards for students to qualify:

Fishburne postgrads begin stretch run with Military Challenge

AFP

Published date: January 23, 2013 | 12:18 pm

Updated: January 28, 2013 | 4:04 pm

The coaches strolling the sidelines at this weekend’s Fishburne Military School Scotto’s Military Challenge will be wearing sneakers as part of the Coaches vs. Cancer Challenge to bring awareness to cancer research.

FMS PGs at #4 in national rankings

AFP

Published date: January 22, 2013 | 9:35 pm

Fishburne’s 102-92 upset win over then-#1 Massanutten Military Academy on Jan. 11 helped push the Caisson postgrad team up two spots in the national rankings.

UVA discovery offers look at regulation of gene expression

AFP

Published date: January 22, 2013 | 9:17 pm

A groundbreaking new technique developed at the University of Virginia School of Medicine is allowing scientists to examine histone modifications of genetic loci – a process that regulates gene expression – in single cells. The technique enables researchers, for the first time, to analyze the process within the individual cell types that make up complex tissues, overcoming a major limitation of traditional analysis and offering unprecedented opportunities for understanding mechanisms that contribute to development of major human diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular and neurological diseases.

McDonnell releases roads list

AFP

Published date: January 22, 2013 | 9:12 pm

Gov. Bob McDonnell’s comprehensive, long term transportation funding proposal, “Virginia’s Road to the Future,” would provide the Virginia Department of Transportation with approximately $1.28 billion in new state funding that could be used for 158 highway projects providing a significant investment in improving interstate pavement, secondary system bridges, mass-transit, unpaved roads and other high priority projects.

Bipartisan outrage over Senate GOP redistricting power grab

AFP

Published date: January 22, 2013 | 3:53 pm

Updated: January 28, 2013 | 9:40 pm

Threats of lawsuits are in the air as Virginia lawmakers make sense of the unannounced amendment to the 2011 legislative redistricting rammed through the State Senate on a party-line vote on Monday.

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Recently released Tree ID app can help homeowners, gardeners

EQIP program provides funding for forest landowners

Hurt comments on ‘No Budget No Pay’

BRCC schedules events for Black History Month

State Senate Democrats fight on Dream Act bill

Fishburne postgrads begin stretch run with Military Challenge

FMS PGs at #4 in national rankings

UVA discovery offers look at regulation of gene expression

McDonnell releases roads list

Bipartisan outrage over Senate GOP redistricting power grab

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