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With partners from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the Harrisonburg/Rockingham Chamber of Commerce and the Virginia Poultry Federation in attendance, the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank received 8,650 pounds of turkey meat on June 20
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The building of the Dulles Toll Road in the 1980s was viewed as a way to provide traffic congestion relief to western Fairfax County at a time when Routes 7 and 50 or a series of secondary roads were the only ways to get from Reston to Tysons Corner and beyond
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U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine met with Charlottesville women in a roundtable discussion about his vision for our economic future. At C’Ville Coffee on Harris Street, Kaine emphasized his strategies to assist small businesses and support job growth
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Two of Richmond’s favorite comedians will take to WTA’s Gateway on June 23 at 8 p.m. Jim Zarling, host of the Gateway’s comedy nights has enticed Ray Bullock and J. Walter Braman to join him for an evening of entertainment at 329 West Main in Downtown Waynesboro
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The Service Employee’s International Union (SEIU), the nation’s fastest growing union with 2.1 million members, today is launching the largest and most-targeted political field campaign in the union’s 91-year history to re-elect President Obama
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Helayne Spivak, an acclaimed veteran creative director in the advertising industry, has been named the new director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Brandcenter, the university’s marketing communications and advertising graduate program
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James Madison University football has added two transfers to the 2012 roster in redshirt-freshman quarterback Lafonte Thourogood (Virginia Beach, Va./Ocean Lakes (Vanderbilt)) and redshirt-senior defensive lineman Isaiah Hamlette (Stafford, Va./Brook Point (Virginia Tech)), Head Coach Mickey Matthews announced
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A Nelson County man pled guilty today to multiple federal charges for the sale of illegally poached bear organs, the sale of fighting gamecocks, the possession of protected migratory birds, and the distribution of marijuana
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The University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted in the early-morning hours to name Carl P. Zeithaml as interim president of the university. He will assume that position effective Aug. 16. Zeithaml is the long-time dean of the McIntire School of Commerce
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The putsch that led to the forced resignation of UVa. president Teresa Sullivan was done with Gov. Bob McDonnell’s full knowledge and support. That’s the only thing that we can conclude based on the continuing silence from the governor’s office
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