Waynesboro artist Don Whitson featured at Shenandoah Valley Art Center in January
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The Shenandoah Valley Art Center, during the month of January will present the watercolor paintings of Waynesboro artist, Don Whitson.
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Staunton Parks and Recreation Department receives multiple awards
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The Staunton Parks and Recreation Department received three state awards at the Virginia Recreation and Park Society (VRPS) Annual Awards Presentation at the VRPS Annual Conference on Monday, December 8.
Game Notes: #6 UVA basketball returns to action on Thursday vs. Cleveland State
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The sixth-ranked UVA basketball team (9-0) returns from its 12-day exam break vs. Cleveland State (5-5) in non-conference action on Thursday, Dec. 18. Tipoff at John Paul Jones Arena is set for 7 p.m.
Marietta McCarty: One indie bookstore
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Around the country I’ve traveled, thriving on talks at indie bookstores from Seattle to Portland to Boston to New York to Little Rock to Greensboro and throughout Virginia. One shop stands way out. No place won my heart like Stone Soup Books and Café in Waynesboro, VA. Housed in a 120-year-old formerly abandoned home, Stone Soup embodies the spirit of independently owned bookstores.
David Swanson: Intersection of mistakes with misdeeds
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On a pleasant spring day in December it’s nice to drive past the endlessly under-construction intersection of Route 250 and McIntire Road and realize that the darn thing must nearly be completed. It looks sturdy and attractive.
Virginia Tech green building class benefits area high schools, Habitat for Humanity
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In a unique partnership between the Giles County Technology Center, Habitat for Humanity of the New River Valley, and a Virginia Tech sustainable biomaterials class, college students developed teaching materials on green building for high schools students.
Pulaski aquaponics venture is finalist for recognition
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Pulaski Grow, an aquaponics business established in Pulaski County to provide youth job training opportunities, is among four finalists for the first-ever Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge.
Saving our soils and climate with biochar
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Biochar is a naturally occurring, fine-grained, highly porous form of charcoal derived from the process of baking biomass—and it’s been associated with fertile soils for some two thousand years.
Fishburne PG basketball prepares for busy week
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Fishburne Military School postgrad basketball has a busy week ahead, with games against Ridgeview Prep (N.C.) and Hargrave Military sandwiched around a home tilt against the Bridgewater College JVs.
Mosquitoes and malaria: Scientists pinpoint how biting cousins have grown apart
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Certain species of mosquitoes are genetically better at transmitting malaria than even some of their close cousins, according to a multi-institutional team of researchers including Virginia Tech scientists.
