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Learning about arachnids with Sen. Tim Kaine at Westside Elementary School
Sen. Tim Kaine reads and explains spiders/arachnids to 1st grade class. It started in the fifth grade classroom where students were first instructed not to make faces as media jostled for position...
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Cuccinelli in letter to governor will not defend Opportunity Educational...
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and candidate for governor. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli sends a letter to the governor declining to defend the state’s new Opportunity Educational Institution. The...
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Anti-Obamacare chain letters flying fast and furious
Affordable Healthcare Act chain letter scare tactics are again rampant and reek of desperation. Their popping up on Facebook as well as in emails. They are not new but resurfacing as Obamacare is being...
View ArticleMain Roanoke Library closes October 28
Roanoke Public Libraries Main Library branch will close for renovation starting on Monday, Oct. 28. The 61-year-old library building is slated for a complete renovation to the first floor and...
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Teachers rally for 17th HOD district Freeda Cathcart
Teachers for Freeda Cathcart, 17th District House of Delegates candidate According to teacher, Thomas Ryder, about 25-30 “eager voters,” parents, teachers and concerned citizens gathered in the...
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BBB Alert: Pay a ransom to unlock your computer
Ransomware Alert Roanoke, VA (November 12, 2013) BBB is warning businesses and consumers of a new computer threat that steals information, encrypts the data, and then charges $300 in ransom for...
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Governor-elect Terry McAuliffe taps Anne Holton as Secretary of Education
Former First Lady Anne Holton wife of U.S. Senator Tim Kaine Governor-elect Terry McAuliffe announced at a press conference on Friday the nomination of Former First Lady Anne Holton to be his...
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Graduates of web-based financial education program honored
Vinton, Virginia – May 19, 2014 – Today, Superintendent Dr. Lorraine Lange, Union First Market Bank and educators from William Byrd High School honored graduates from the My Money, My Future program, a...
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McAuliffe by executive order creates Children’s Cabinet
Governor Terry McAuliffe Richmond – Governor McAuliffe today signed an Executive Order creating a cabinet solely dedicated to the education, health, safety, and welfare of Virginia’s children and...
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Rep. Morgan Griffith congratulates winner of House app contest
Congressman Griffith congratulating Ninth District House App Contest winner Patrick Thomas today in Pearisburg Thomas described his winning app, entitled “Orb Defense Game,” as a children’s tower...
View ArticleVirginia revenue shortfall hits higher education, state agencies, and localities
Higher Education takes a hit in offsetting the Commonwealth’s budget shortfall. In addition localities across the state will have to pitch in – by helping balance the state budgets by sending $30...
View ArticleThree Roanoke Elementary schools receives $400 thousand grant
Roanoke City will split almost $400 thousand start-up grant to three elementary schools that include Fallon Park Elementary, Hurt Park Elementary and Westside Elementary. The grant were awarded to...
View ArticleIndependent counsel selected for UVA sexual violence investigation
This morning, Chief Deputy Attorney General Cynthia Hudson sent a letter to University of Virginia Board of Visitors Rector George Martin informing him that the firm of O’Melveny & Myers will serve...
View ArticleVirginia AG Herring troubled by Rolling Stone’s article errors
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring in a statement on today’s news regarding the Rolling Stone article on sexual assault at the University of Virginia: “It is deeply troubling that Rolling Stone...
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Virginia Western Community College to receive Federal Workforce Investment...
Gov. McAuliffe observes students on workforce development tour of VWCC in March 2013 Governor Terry McAuliffe made workforce development his economic top priority during his gubernatorial candidacy. He...
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Extended U.S. Senate session alters Tim Kaine’s Roanoke visit
Virginia U. S. Senator Tim Kaine U.S. Senator Tim Kaine was set to kick off a four-day swing through the Commonwealth in the Roanoke Valley. In the morning, Kaine was to participate in a roundtable...
View ArticlePatrick Henry High School to host 29th annual Student Project Forum
On Saturday, January 31st, 270 gifted and talented students from across the Roanoke Valley will participate in Roanoke Valley Governor’s School for Science and Technology’s 29th annual Student Project...
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Roanoke City Council gives thumbs up to culinary school expansion – thumbs...
The Oscar Micheaux marker dedicated on Henry Street in September 2008 The Roanoke City owned parcel located at 209 Henry Street next to the existing Al Pollard Culinary School in the Claude Moore...
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Governor’s School student works to improve memory performance of alzheimer’s...
RVGS/Craig County High School senior Kacey Price Project Forum is a free, open-to-the-public event that will take place from 1:30-3:00 PM on Saturday, January 31, in the Patrick Henry High School...
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Mike Wray to run for Roanoke County School Board
Mike Wray Mike Wray a former Cave Spring Roanoke County Board of Supervisor plans to run for the Cave Spring Roanoke County School Board in November. Fuzzy Minnix had announced that he will not run...
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