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People Drive From All Over Virginia For The Fried Chicken At This Classic Roadside Restaurant
There are very few things in this world worth driving an hour out of your way for, and Southern Kitchen in New Market, Virginia is absolutely one of them. If fried chicken could win a popularity contest, this place would have been class president since 1955. Let’s start with the...
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Starr Hill co-founder reflects on brewery’s legacy as it merges with Hardywood
Mark Thompson helped start the Charlottesville brewery in 1999 and now owns and operates Brewing Tree Beer Company in Afton.
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This Unassuming Virginia Diner Quietly Serves The Best Breakfast In The Entire State
If the Hawksbill Diner in Stanley, Virginia were a person, it would be the quietly confident one at the party who doesn’t say much but turns out to be the most interesting person in the room. It doesn’t advertise itself aggressively, it doesn’t make a lot of noise, and...
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These 10 Virginia Apple Orchards Could Become Your New Autumn Tradition
Fall in Virginia tastes better when you pick the apples yourself. As cool mornings arrive, orchards across the state turn into fall escapes filled with ripe apples, fresh cider, warm doughnuts, and baskets begging to be filled. A simple afternoon can become the kind of outing everyone talks about on...
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Virginia Tech trains dogs to track spotted lanternflies
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Virginia Tech has a program that trains dogs to detect and destroy spotted lanternflies and their nests. This has been an ongoing research venture since 2023. The university found that trained dogs can find the insects better than humans due to their acute senses. “If we...
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Starr Hill co-founder reflects on brewery’s legacy as it merges with Hardywood
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Mark Thompson helped create Starr Hill Brewery in the September of 1999. Now, as the brewery joins with Hardywood, he is remembering what makes it special. “To be able to combine my passion for music, my love of music, my love of live music, with a...
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You’d Never Guess This Tiny Virginia Town Is The Fried Chicken Capital Of The World
Somewhere in the rolling green heart of Virginia, there’s a town so quietly confident about its place in culinary history that it doesn’t even need to shout about it. Gordonsville, Virginia has been holding the title of Fried Chicken Capital of the World for well over a century, and it wears that crown with the kind of easy grace that only comes from knowing you’ve truly earned it.
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Virginia Tech trains dogs to track spotted lanternflies
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Virginia Tech has a program that trains dogs to detect and destroy spotted lanternflies and their nests. This has been an ongoing research venture since 2023. The university found that trained dogs can find the insects better than humans due to their acute senses. “If we...
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Animal lovers come together at Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA’s third annual Fall Fest
The rain did not stop vendors, workers or community patrons from showing out Sunday for the Charlottesville-Albemarle Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' third annual Fall Fest. From 11 a.m. until 3 p.m., people and pets of all ages ate local food, shopped at various booths and brought home new furry friends at IX Art Park.
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Smokey Hollow Tattoo opens on Turkeysag Trail
Smokey Hollow Tattoo is open and welcoming customers in the Turkeysag Trail shopping center. Owners Dustin and Ginny Messer settled on Turkeysag Trail after searching for the right location to open their own shop. Dustin, the artist behind Smokey Hollow Tattoo, has more than 20 years of experience in Charlottesville’s tattoo industry.
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Community rallies around non-profit Speaking of Horses after Stanardsville barn fire
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – In the wake of a Stanardsville barn fire last month that killed a therapy horse and a therapy dog, the community has rallied around the non-profit Speaking of Horses, raising money to help the organization which provides equine-based speech therapy for children with disabilities.