Amber Capron

I've been volunteering with Stony Point Elementary for years, getting kids outside for hands on learning experiences. We're piloting an outdoor education program to expand this work and we're ready to hire a coordinator. Please share! Posted on ACPS under Elementary Outdoor Education Coordinator.

If you're backyard is close to water, consider building a frog sauna to help treat chytrid!

The chocolates are Gearharts! Recalled due to broken glass!

Meet Tally, Rio Hill Kroger’s new inventory control associate.

Maryland just released its own vaccine recommendations based on guidance from established medical and scientific organizations instead of the Trump administration. With unqualified leaders at the helm, states can and—should—step up to protect their communities.

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

Evening mushroom walk.

We grow milkweed in the school garden so that students can observe the monarch’s life cycle each year.

I think that Dolly Parton was, for a lot of people, an ambassador of the "good" values people think of about the South: kindness, hospitality, can-do spirit, sharp and witty and down to earth. I think for a segment of people, too, she was theantithesis of a lot of noxious masculine country stuff.

Morning mushroom walk.

**NWS Damage Survey from Friday's storms in Charlottesville includes 90mph winds over a nearly 2½ mile stretch: mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.ph...

Remember: School may start today, but that does not mean that summer is over. It's not "fall y'all" or pumpkin spice season until Sept. 23rd. Continue to swim in the pool, splash in the creek, pick wildflowers, catch lightning bugs, eat peaches, and make the most of those evenings and weekends.

Good grief, this hits home.

There's a perverse symbolism in the legacy of White racism sheltering under the bowers of all African Americans have done for this country while patiently waiting for the chance to go back to insisting we are a drain upon their society and that they never needed us at all.

Two of the most important biomedical breakthroughs came from science of the Gila lizard venom (GLP-1s) and yogurt (CRISPR genome editing). "The system that turned that lizard into a medicine is now being dismantled." gift link nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

“…those are millions of gallons of water being diverted away from our rivers and streams during the peak of summer, when flows are the lowest and water is most needed. It’s especially concerning when most of the state is in a severe drought, as we are now…” #valeg virginiamercury.com/2026/06/19/f...

Our local libraries also have museum/parks passes, bicycle repair kits, blood pressure monitors, seeds, instruments, and more that can be checked out.

Field Day at my kid’s elementary, which was also my elementary. Not sure whether to be aghast or impressed that they’re still using the same yarn balls 40 years later.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Air pollution does not stay within county lines. Reminder that the proposed plant will also impact air quality in Scottsville, Esmont, and Keswick.

Oof. "The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm." -- The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"A tree may not have advanced degrees, nor even neurons to give it voice, but its genius as an educator would be hard for even a well-credentialed human to exceed."

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Dave Matthews and Tim Ryenolds playing Neil Young’s Ohio last night and ends with some Rage Against the Machine.

It cheers our hearts and warms our blood...

UPDATE: #Fluvanna County’s Planning Commission voted that Tenaska’s proposed second methane gas plant is not in accord with the county’s comprehensive plan. Nhttps://loom.ly/sgzOU_o

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

A 2012 report by the TJHD shows that lung cancer incidents in Fluvanna County between 2004 to 2008, the period just after Tenaska built its first gas powered plant, increased more than 30 percent compared with 1999 to 2003. Coincidence?

How much is your health worth? In Fluvanna—Tenaska's "Good Neighbor Fund": "Homeowners whose properties are adjacent to the existing or proposed plants could receive up to $30,000. Residents within one mile could receive up to $20,000, while those within two miles could receive up to $10,000."

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

“The key takeaway is a message of hope—the effects of Alzheimer's disease may not be inevitably permanent. The damaged brain can, under some conditions, repair itself and regain function.”

Christmas morning bagels with lox. Tomatoes were picked green from our garden the night before our first freeze, and left to ripen on the counter. Wrapped in newspaper and boxed up, they would have lasted longer, but I was hoping to have some for Christmas. Just cut into the last one this morning.

Grateful to work with Wild Virginia. Excited to see where this leads.

Scott Beardsley, you will quickly learn about the separation of powers between branches and what happens when one branch gives a middle finger to another that funds, regulates and allows their existence. Buckle up.

I'm helping kids wrap presents at the school's Secret Shop (where the community donates items, and kids pick out a gift for someone special). I just helped a boy wrap a new purse for his mom. "My mom's purse was stolen last week, cards and all, so I'm giving this to her for Christmas." ❤️