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Staunton: They actually want to make it harder to get around downtown?
Folks in Staunton aren’t sure about plans for downtown traffic that will make it harder to drive through and to find parking spaces, but I’m going to write about a today difficulty with downtown.
UVA Football: Program looking into bringing back two grads after court ruling
The depth for UVA Football on the D line might be getting deeper, with the program announcing on Saturday that Jacob Holmes and Cazeem Moore are being “integrated” into preseason activities.
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Staunton: City wants to make throwing something in the trash ‘the last option’
The City of Staunton kicked off its “Less to the Landfill” initiative this week by highlighting two upgrades made to the Staunton Recycling Center.
Reader recounts 10 days inside the Middle River Regional Jail: ‘Treated as an animal’
A reader reached out to us on our reporting on the death by suicide of Christopher Lee Franklin, 40, of Stafford, on July 26 in the Rappahannock Regional Jail, with his own harrowing tale of his stay in our very own Middle River Regional Jail.
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Can we make the construction, maintenance of roads more efficient, greener?
Highways are changing as engineers look for ways to make roads last longer while reducing pollution.
Kaine, Beyer differ on Russia sanctions bill passed by U.S. Senate
A big bipartisan U.S. Senate majority voted to pass a package of economic and political sanctions against Russia on Friday, but I think I’m with Northern Virginia Congressman Don Beyer on this one.
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Larry Haney, Cal Raleigh among the many MLB catchers with ties to Virginia
This October will be the 60th anniversary of the first World Series title for the Baltimore Orioles – who have not been back to the Fall Classic, much less won it, since 1983.
Virginia Tech Football: Franklin not set on starting QB for season opener
Former Penn State QB1 Ethan Grunkemeyer is expected to be the starter at QB for Virginia Tech when the season opens on Sept. 5 with VMI, but first-year coach James Franklin is going to make Grunkemeyer earn it.
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Alon Ben-Meir | Netanyahu’s challengers are selling the same poison
One would think that after Oct. 7 and the Gaza war that followed, the leaders from the main opposition parties would have drawn the obvious conclusion.
Staunton: City wants to make throwing something in the trash ‘the last option’
The City of Staunton kicked off its “Less to the Landfill” initiative this week by highlighting two upgrades made to the Staunton Recycling Center.
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