WINCHESTER — U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-10th, met with several local business owners Thursday evening at the Hideaway Cafe on the Loudoun Street Mall to hear how they've dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic and to discuss how they can seek financial relief from the f…
WINCHESTER — Being a teacher during the COVID-19 pandemic brought added meaning to this year’s Teacher Appreciation Week, which ended Friday.
P-EBT stands for Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer program, which is a federal program created in the spring of 2020 to assist low-income households with their nutritional needs while schools were closed due to COVID-19. All families in Winchester Public Schools temporarily qualify for th…
WINCHESTER — Though more than 4,700 Northern Shenandoah Valley residents were unemployed in March, according to the Virginia Employment Commission, the numbers improved from February to March, and the region still remains in the top half of localities in terms of lowest unemployment rates in…
WINCHESTER — If you have at least one child attending Winchester Public Schools, you likely may have received a white card in the mail that says “Virginia P-EBT.”
Just over a year after the first coronavirus death in the Lord Fairfax Health District, the 14 deaths in April were the lowest monthly amount of deaths since November.
WINCHESTER — The 94th Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival is a wrap.
WINCHESTER — The Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) program has reopened for applications.
WINCHESTER — New unemployment numbers in the Northern Shenandoah Valley continue to bounce around.
BERRYVILLE — The Clarke County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday accepted a state grant and appropriated a local match to buy body cameras for county sheriff’s deputies.
MILLWOOD — Animal lovers in the Northern Shenandoah Valley won't have to travel far to take a walk on the wild side.
WINCHESTER — Frederick County Public Schools will provide in-person learning five days per week for the 2021-22 school year, with limited offerings for virtual learning, Superintendent David Sovine announced Tuesday night.
WINCHESTER — New unemployment claims have dipped across the state after a recent two-week spike, according to data from the Virginia Employment Commission.
WINCHESTER — All five localities in the Northern Shenandoah Valley saw a drop in local unemployment rates for February, according to data from the Virginia Employment Commission.
WINCHESTER — Frederick County, Clarke County and Winchester Public Schools will hold outdoor in-person commencement ceremonies for high school graduates in June.
WINCHESTER — Over the past year, Winchester Public Schools has received $13,722,889 in federal COVID-19 relief funds.
WINCHESTER — On a day when global coronavirus deaths closed in on 3 million, including some 563,000 Americans, the people getting vaccine shots at Frederick Douglass Park Tuesday didn’t want to become statistics.
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WINCHESTER — New jobless claims have spiked in the Northern Shenandoah Valley in recent weeks, according to data from the Virginia Employment Commission.
CROSS JUNCTION — After serving nearly 45 years in various roles at Timber Ridge School, which serves emotionally disturbed and behaviorally disordered adolescent boys between the ages of 10 and 21, John Lamanna retired last month as executive director.
WINCHESTER — For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began locally over a year ago, Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-10, visited a school on Friday morning and her first stop happened to be Daniel Morgan Middle School.
WINCHESTER — Beginning Monday, everyone 16 and older in the Lord Fairfax Health District is eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
WINCHESTER — Stanley Newman noticed a flyer on his door advertising a COVID-19 vaccine clinic at Virginia Avenue Charlotte DeHart Elementary School, just six blocks from his Winchester home.
WINCHESTER — Unlike some localities, the Frederick County government has kept its offices open to the public throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shenandoah University students Makenzie Holston (from left), Sarah Burtner and Jamie Duff enjoy some free ice cream from Matti's Soft Serve on campus Monday. The three attended a small kickoff at SU for a weeklong series of events known as "staycation" encouraging students to remain on campu…
WINCHESTER — Shenandoah University is hosting a weeklong series of events to encourage students to stay in the area instead of traveling during the school's spring break, which began Saturday and ends April 4.
WINCHESTER — The Winchester School Board voted 6-1 on Monday night to expand in-person learning to four days per week, effective April 12.
WINCHESTER — Last spring, COVID-19 resulted in traditional graduation ceremonies being canceled at area high schools and colleges and replaced with virtual commencement exercises, graduation parades and individual diploma presentations.
January had a third more coronavirus deaths in the Lord Fairfax Health District than previously reported, but there were less than half as many in February.
WINCHESTER — No one was injured in a fire that badly damaged a home in the 200 block of Darby Drive on Sunday.
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