
Flags in: A reminder this Memorial Day
This tradition called “Flags In” has been conducted every year since 1948. The flags add color and a sort of hope to the otherwise subdued white grave markers.

This tradition called “Flags In” has been conducted every year since 1948. The flags add color and a sort of hope to the otherwise subdued white grave markers.

The SCC Bureau of Insurance encourages Virginians to consider their insurance options before hurricane season arrives.

Mosquito season has begun, although with cooler than normal temperatures in many parts of the state, activity is still light.

Youth with disabilities participating in a job skills academy will demonstrate a solar-powered water filtration unit they built at WWRC.

Good old Knoxville, Tennessee — this scruffy little town that I love — will host the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a dismal bureaucracy.

An area of showers and thunderstorms near the Bahamas has the potential to develop into a tropical system during Memorial Day weekend.

A limited number of single day tickets to the fourth annual Red Wing Roots Music Festival have been released for purchase.

Half of North Carolina voters back the repeal of the controversial HB2 bill that codifies discrimination against LGBTs, women and religious groups.

U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine comment after the Senate voted 55-43 to repeal the USDA catfish inspection program that is harmful to Virginia seafood producers.

A two-part nutrient management training school will be held in June and July at the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton.
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