Remarks by President Obama at Virginia Beach campaign event
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President Obama talks to voters at a campaign event in Virginia Beach on Friday
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Chris Graham: They, the people
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Well, they’ve done it again. Ignored us. We voted in Waynesboro five years ago in favor of borrowing money to build a West End fire station. The vote was ruled nonbinding because of a paperwork snafu. Depends on who you believe as to how that all came down
Gilbert, ACLU propose legislation to regulate unmanned aerial drones
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State Del. C. Todd Gilbert (R Woodstock) and the ACLU of Virginia announced Thursday that they are working together on legislation to regulate the use of unmanned aerial drones in the Commonwealth
Susan Allen campaigns in Valley
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Susan Allen campaigned for her husband, George, the Republican U.S. Senate nominee, in the Shenandoah Valley on Thursday, listening to the voices and stories of hardworking families and local business owners as part of the Virginia Voices initiative to highlight their ideas and solutions for fixing Washington
Ken Plum: Uranium mining in Virginia
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Virginia has one of the largest deposits of uranium of anyplace in the country in Pittsylvania County in the southern part of the state. The location of Coles Hill Farm where the deposit is centered is in the Roanoke River watershed. There are smaller deposits of uranium in other parts of the state including the Piedmont region
MacDella Cooper : Investing in Africa’s at-risk children, one child at a time
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Twenty-two years ago this month, the people of Liberia suffered the devastating effects of of civil war. The country’s economic, political, and social systems were decimated. The United Nations estimates that 250,000 people were killed and one million displaced. Children suffered the most; tens of thousands were abandoned or orphaned. Most were powerless against exploitation…
Mojo Saturday Night: A special ‘two feature show’
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The Saturday, July 21 Mojo Saturday Night at WTA’s Gateway is lining up to be an awesome night of blues as well as a preview of things to come! A special “Two Feature Show”, Bob Driver and his Blues Trio will perform with The Li’l Bill Band. It’ll be a hot night of Mojo, just in time for the middle of summer
Tuskegee Airmen to speak at local celebration
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The famed Tuskegee Airmen of World War II will be recognized in a community-wide celebration at the gym in Gypsy Hill Park, Staunton, on Sunday, July 15
Chris Marston: Perspectives on music
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Although a child of the ’70s, my parents did not subject me to the music revolution of the ’60s. God love them, but hippies they are not. Rather than Janis Joplin, I listened to Karen Carpenter. In lieu of The Beatles, I listened to the Statler Brothers
VDOT road-work report
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The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton transportation district during the coming weeks
