SWAC Girl salutes the Nutcracker Prince,Alex Davis,
VDOT is tracking the traffic and travel conditions across central Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley from a command center in Staunton.
A front worked it way into the area Sunday afternoon and could be seen along the Alleghany Mountain range. Rain is in the forecast for Monday, rain that stretches up and down the Eastern Seaboard.
Snowmen and penguins and nativity scenes and lights ... some SWAC bloggers were busy this weekend and it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the central Shenandoah Valley.... [...] 
The director of the Shenandoah Valley Tea Party Patriots is the first official candidate to fill the Staunton City Council seat of outgoing state District 20 Del.-elect Dickie Bell.
Former Detroit policeman and Navy veteran Richard Armstrong, 63, on Monday submitted his application and Staunton vision [...]
The Roanoke Times reported yesterday that “The Associated Press discharged an undisclosed number of news employees Tuesday, and their ranks included Sue Lindsey, a veteran journalist who has been the correspondent for the AP’s Roanoke bureau since 2005.” Lindsey covered the greater Roanoke/Shenandoah Valley area.
Lindsey said she did not [...]
High winds and rain will continue today in the Shenandoah Valley as the remnants of Tropical Depression Ida join forces with a nor'easter off the Virginia coast to cause extremely high and possibly destructive tides with forecasts of up to a foot of rain in that' [...] 
Raw and rainy days, a warm fire, and a good book seem to go well together. In that spirit, I recommend In an Uncharted Country by Clifford Garstang, a Shenandoah Valley author. You can easily read the dozen short stories in a morning while listening to [...] 
This stark tree along the Staunton bypass represents many trees in the Shenandoah Valley and Blue Ridge Mountains in this first week of November ... leaves have turned colors and fallen to the ground. There are some including Bradford pears that are just beginning their [...] 
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