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Biden to extend student-loan payment pause during Supreme Court challenge

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Americans with student loan debt will not be forced to make payments through August under a plan announced on Tuesday by President Joe Biden, who said the timeline would give the Supreme Court a chance to hear a challenge to his policy. The Biden administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to lift a lower court’s order blocking his plan to pass billions of…

Veterans could get a grant to start their own small businesses under this bill proposal

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(Gray DC) - Plenty of service men and women decide to pursue college degrees through the GI Bill, but a proposal in the U.S. House could give veterans more options in determining their futures. Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) has introduced a bill that would launch a 3-year pilot program to enable up to 250 GI Bill benefit-eligible veterans to gain training and grants to start a small…

Modine Celebrates Opening of U.S. Chiller Plant

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ROCKBRIDGE, Va. — Modine Manufacturing Company, a provider of thermal management technology and solutions, officially marked the launch of its new production facility in Rockbridge, Virginia, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The newly repurposed plant, previously a warehouse, will manufacture cooling solutions under the Airedale by Modine brand to capture opportunities in the…

GOP Rep. Cline: Were Seeing Spike in Energy Prices and It Will Get Worse

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On Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Wake Up America,” Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA) reacted to the October Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation numbers by stating that we’re seeing large inflation in energy and that’s before a projected 17% increase in the price of heating bills. Cline said, “Well, still holding steady month-over-month at 0.4%. And…

Grottoes Remembers, Celebrates Veterans

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GROTTOES — When Olivia McKeever, a fifth grade student at South River Elementary School, thinks of a veteran, she thinks of an honorable and memorable person who fought for freedom. “I think of my grandfather, who fought bravely in Vietnam, and the sacrifices he made for our country’s freedom,” she said Friday morning at the Grottoes Veterans Day ceremony.…

Rep. Cline to Newsmax: 'Rough Winter' Ahead Due to Energy Costs

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Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., told Newsmax's "Wake Up America" show on Thursday that many Americans are in for a "rough winter" due to soaring prices of home heating-oil, electricity, and gas. Also on Thursday, news came that consumer price increases eased to 7.7% in October, compared to a reading of 8.2% in September, according to NBC News. But Cline, a member of…

Local WWI Veteran's Gravestone Corrected

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Chaz Haywood first saw a photograph of Winton Paul Burtner in a framed portrait at his wife’s family home. Haywood asked his wife, “Who’s that fella?” Ginny Haywood responded that the man was her great-uncle, who was killed in June 1918 at the Battle of Belleau in France during World War I. It wasn’t until Haywood started digging around online and pulled up…

A Plant Once Again

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Modine Manufacturing, long a fixture of Buena Vista, is firmly establishing its presence in Rockbridge County, 18 months after announcing its intention to do so.  Continue reading...

The Chimney Rock VFW Celebrates 75 Years of Service

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In 1947, a group of veterans who had returned from places like Omaha Beach, Japan, Italy, Africa, Normandy, and various other places around the world. Their objective was in forming a VFW to help themselves and many more veterans in the community. This would give them the help and support that they needed to get the rights and benefits they had fought for. This included things like the…