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Hinesight: Healing the Community from Within

Jan 20, 2021 12:35AM ● By Rhiannon Ellis

During a summer of record heat, a worldwide health crisis and explosive civil unrest, one local not-for-profit organization rose to address two pandemics: coronavirus and racism.  Hinesight, a...

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Germanna: "We Kept Our Eyes on the Goal"

Jan 19, 2021 11:58PM ● By Brandy Centolanza

Like most colleges and universities, Germanna Community College was tasked this year with conducting a virtual graduation ceremony for its students due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The fall...

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History is Being Made Every Day … Everyone’s Story Matters

Jan 19, 2021 11:35PM ● By Brandy Centolanza

Since the start of quarantine back in the spring of 2020, Fredericksburg Area Museum (FAM) has been collecting stories and artifacts in an effort to archive the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on...

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Zion Hill Baptist Church Helps Test for COVID

Jan 19, 2021 11:08PM ● By Amy Taylor

On October 8, 2020, Zion Hill Baptist Church partnered with the Fredericksburg Health Department to offer free COVID-19 testing. They provided 50 tests for parishioners and people in the...

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DaVita Kidney Care: Giving Light and Life to the Vulnerable

Jan 19, 2021 10:39PM ● By Rhiannon Ellis

DaVita Kidney Care’s mission of helping people towards better health has never been more obvious than during the coronavirus pandemic.  Its health care professionals remain are on the front lines...

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Early Childhood Educators Pressed on During Pandemic

Jan 19, 2021 10:14PM ● By Emily Freehling

As the world shut down in March 2020 to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, child care center owners and early childhood educators had a unique perspective on the challenges and trade-offs...

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Grymes Memorial School: "Our Teachers Were Heroic"

Jan 19, 2021 02:57PM ● By Emily Freehling

Grymes teachers worked through pandemic to ensure student progress continued  While the novel coronavirus transformed daily life for students in the spring of 2020, it didn’t change the...

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FCS Printed Mask Extenders for Area Hospitals

Jan 19, 2021 02:28PM ● By Emily Freehling

  In the midst of adjusting to an abrupt shift to online learning, innovative staff members at FCS led an effort to give back to the community  In the weeks before schools closed across Virginia...

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Mary Washington Healthcare on Pandemic: "We Must Do This Together"

Jan 18, 2021 11:59PM ● By Emily Freehling

With community’s help, Mary Washington Hospital rose to the pandemic challenge  As the world came to grips with the severity of the novel coronavirus in February and March of 2020, so much was...

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RACSB Food Donations: “Everybody Came Together”

Jan 18, 2021 11:44PM ● By Emily Freehling

RACSB is proud of the community collaboration that got food to those who needed it during the pandemic When the Kenmore Club—a program of the Rappahannock Area Community Services Board—was forced...

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