Many of us are now working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic.
But that doesn’t mean we should forget the people in our work lives who make our days better, and our jobs a little easier.
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I spent the past four hours scouring the web, looking for the Twitter handles of as many restaurants in our area — from Gainesville to Fredericksburg — that I could find.
Starting tomorrow in Virginia, it’s Restaurant Takeout Week, a chance for residents to support their favorite restaurants during a time when dining rooms are closed in the wake of a growing number of coronavirus cases in the state and in the U.S.
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The staff here is trained to greet everyone who comes through the dining room door with hearty “Welcome to Chick-fil-A!” But now that the dining room is closed to the public, that phrase isn’t being used there as much as it was only a few short weeks ago.
The staff now at Chick-fil-A Bristow have been working to serve their customers from the drive-through window and utilizing curbside pick up.
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On this day that the president is set to be exonerated after his impeachment trial, I stumbled on to a memory that I didn’t even recall until now.
Mr. Trump, I want you to know that I’ve been impeached, too.
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Conservatives have momentum after yesterday’s peaceful Second Amendment rights march in Richmond.
Predictions of Antifa, or white supremacists groups infiltrating the march to incite a riot similar to what we saw in Charlottesville in 2017, didn’t happen. Governor Ralph Northam is taking credit for de-escalating what he said could have been a dangerous situation.
Go to Opinion: If gun rights brought them here, maybe they’ll stick around for more action
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Those poor conservatives.
Election Day comes around every year on the first Tuesday in November. Yes — in Virginia — there is an election every year. But yet, somehow, conservatives said they missed this one.
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More layoffs in the local news industry are expected next week following the merger of Gannett and GateHouse Media.
Inevitably, as it has in every other newspaper company merger or closure, the amount of local news coverage in the affected communities will decrease.
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Every year at Halloween, my wife and I like to act like big kids.
There’s always one haunt that we make the short drive to every year, and that’s Haunted Hallow.