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The Shenandoah Valley Art Center, during the month of August, is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Beverley Street Studio School, located in the heart of the historic Downtown Staunton, with an exhibit of paintings, prints, collages and works on copper by students and faculty members
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Recently, the story broke that foreclosures were at the lowest level since 2007. That sounds like great news—we’re finally cleaning up the mess from the real estate bubble. Except for one thing: RealtyTrac.com, a marketer of information on foreclosed real estate, noted in April that the number of short sales (where a bank allows an owner to sell for less than is owed on the mortgage) were up by 33 percent from last year
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The Virginia Department of Forestry has shifted from a county-based to a multi-county, area-based life safety and public service agency under an agency reorganization plan that went into effect last week
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This is my last political campaign, and it got me a little nostalgic. So I started thinking about some of my early campaigns – when I was running as a state senator, when I was running for U.S. senator back in my home state of Illinois
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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
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President Obama talks to voters at a campaign event in Virginia Beach on Friday
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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
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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
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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
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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
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