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The Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge Offers the Grant Program to Help Non-Profits

Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer worked tirelessly to affirm the experiences of exploited Black people of the deep south whose stories were forgotten; rising from humble beginnings in Mississippi to become one of the most important, passionate, and powerful voices of the civil and voting rights movements and a leader in the efforts for greater economic opportunities for African Americans.

Highland Medical Center is among the recipients

Covid-19 restrictions and health regulations have forced public libraries to get creative in finding ways to serve their communities. I reached out to two members of the Bath Branch of the Rockbridge Regional Library, Amy Porterfield and Amanda McGuire, to find out how they’ve evolved to better serve the community.…

“We are going to be limiting attendance at the high school and middle school games to cheerleaders and basketball players to two tickets. That way they can have mom and dad come to one game and grandma and grandpa come the next day or their brothers or sisters” said Beam

“Today is Wednesday, February the tenth, and we are currently yellow on the map, so we’re definitely trending in the right direction,” Beam told us.

Mindy Armstrong finishes third in the country in recent competition

First sale planned for March 3, 2021

Enrollment Assistance is available through Navigator in both West Virginia and Virginia

Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research.