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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
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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. Work scheduled is subject to change due to inclement weather and material supplies. Motorists are advised to watch for slow-moving tractors during mowing operations
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VMI basketball recently added three new recruits this past spring – bringing the total number of new faces who will suit up for the Keydets in the 2012-13 season to four
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Dominion Virginia Power crews are assessing damage and working with local emergency personnel today to return electrical service to more than 900,000 customers, including more than 98,000 in the Shenandoah Valley, focusing first on public health and safety facilities including public cooling locations
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Virginia is under a state of emergency following dangerous storms that left downed trees and power lines across an eight-state swath of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic
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The Augusta County Service Authority, which provides water and sewer service to over 14,000 water customers and over 8,000 sewer customers, will not be increasing water and sewer rates for the next fiscal year. Neither hook-up nor availability fees will see increases in the upcoming fiscal year – July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013
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The official start of summer was marked by rising temperatures and falling gas prices. Prices at the pump continued to follow crude oil’s downward trend. On Tuesday, the national average price for regular grade gasoline fell below $3.50 per gallon for the first time since February 10. The national average dropped to $3.45 Friday, down 7 cents for the week, 23 cents for the month and 18 cents below year-ago prices
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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. Work scheduled is subject to change due to inclement weather and material supplies. Motorists are advised to watch for slow-moving tractors during mowing operations
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Sabra Dipping Co., the country’s leading hummus manufacturer, will expand its Silver LEED certified food manufacturing operation in Chesterfield County and establish a Center of Excellence research and development facility on the company’s 49 acre campus in the Ruffin Mill Industrial Park
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Through its Volunteer Fire Assistance program, the Virginia Department of Forestry awarded more than $191,000 in grants to 122 volunteer fire departments across the Commonwealth, including Wilson Fire Department in Augusta County
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