Virginia wildlife authorities ask for public's help in halting mystery illness killing birds across the region
Something is killing birds across the Mid-Atlantic states and the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) is asking for the public's help in trying to halt the spread of this mystery illness.
Read full storyCOVID positivity rate falls below 1% in Blue Ridge Health District
Virginia COVID vaccination rates continue to climbTorstensimon/Pixabay. Data from the Blue Ridge Health District (BRHD), which serves Charlottesville and five surrounding counties in Central Virginia, shows that the 7-day average COVID test positivity rate has fallen to just 0.8%.
Read full storyDigital history project hopes to “complicate” Confederate-dominated history of University of Virginia in Civil War
Screenshot of UVA Unionists websiteNau Center/University of Virginia. Historians from the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia officially launched their second digital history project during a webinar on Tuesday, May 4.
Read full storyArchaeologists discover lost slave cemetery at Founding Father’s 18th Century plantation
John Dickinson's Poplar HallImage courtesy of the Historic American Building Survey / Public Domain. After two years of intense searching, state archaeologists in Delaware say they have located the burying ground for the enslaved workers at Poplar Hall, the Colonial-era plantation of Founder John Dickenson.
Read full storyHelp solve the mystery of unnamed WWII soldiers and civilians
(Image: Malachi Witt/Pixabay) Not long after World War II veteran Richard E. Perkins died in the summer of 2014, his children found a nondescript cookie tin in the bottom of his closet.
Read full storySurvey Finds Americans Not Ready to Get Back to 'Normal'
(Image: ActionVance/Unsplash) With about 25% of the U.S. population fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and states beginning to lift more of the restrictions on businesses, events, and travel, an increasing number of Americans are going to be able to start to pick up where normal life left off just over a year ago.
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