McDonnell provides update on storm response
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As of 10 a.m. Thursday, power companies are reporting that approximately 107,300 customers remain without power statewide, according to a report from Gov. Bob McDonnell’s office
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Farm Bureau: ‘Concerned’ about ObamaCare
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-4 ruling June 28 upholding President Obama’s health care legislation, which includes a requirement that all people have health insurance. That same day the nation’s largest agricultural organization voiced its apprehension
MedExpress opens new location in Staunton
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MedExpress Urgent Care, the leader in providing full-service, walk-in urgent care, opened its fourth center in Virginia today at 1209 Richmond Ave. in Staunton. MedExpress also operates centers in Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia
UVa. wins fifth straight VaSID All-Sports Championship
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The University of Virginia won .646 percent of its intercollegiate athletic contests in 2011-12 to win the 34th annual Virginia Sports Information Director’s Association Division I All-Sport championship. This is the Cavaliers 14th overall title, fifth straight and seventh in the last nine years
Utility worker dead in vehicle accident
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A contracted utility worker in the area to assist with restoring power after last weekend’s severe weather lost her life in a multiple vehicle crash on Route 7 Tuesday night near Bluemont
Award-winning quartet at WTA’s Gateway
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The award winning Andrew McKnight and Beyond Borders will bring their exciting fusion of musical genres to WTA’s Gateway on Saturday, July 14. The performance, supported by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, begins at 8 pm at 329 West Main in Downtown Waynesboro
Bluegrass Night returns to WTA’s Gateway
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Bluegrass will return to WTA’s Gateway on Friday, July 13. Featured will be B-BaM! and Blue Mountain Sunrise. Performance will begin at 8 pm at 329 West Main in Downtown Waynesboro
Shenandoah Valley Art Center: July 2012 Schedule
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The Shenandoah Valley Art Center, during the month of July, is exhibiting the works of artist, Lois Schlachter, versatile painter for the past forty years. This Spring Mount, Pa., artist is as comfortable honing her skills with realism in oils as with abstracts painted in acrylics. The exhibit features a series of Abstract Expressionist-style acrylic paintings, rich in color and dynamic in composition
State parks open for holiday visitors
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Despite a series of damaging storms across Virginia, 31 Virginia State Parks are open and ready for visitors during this holiday week, although three state parks remain closed after losing electricity during the weekend windstorms
New Dem chair: It is cool to be a Democrat
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At age 30, Andrea Jackson has seen a little bit of everything. “People who were wounded in action needed someone to comfort them, sit with them, just be there for them. That was my job,” said Jackson, who served as a chaplain’s assistant in the United States Army from 2002-2004, and deployed with the 2nd Armored Calvary Regiment in Baghdad at the start of the war in Iraq in 2003
