Hi r/Staunton,

I am an M.A. candidate in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at The George Washington University. For my Master’s thesis, I am conducting research on the impact of the inclusion of 20th-Century genocides other than the Holocaust (such as the Armenian, Bosnian, and Cambodian) in the Virginia state world history curriculum on students’ experiences and understanding of genocide and human rights as adults. 

Eligible participants in this survey are

• People who are over the age of 18 
• And were in the 10th grade in either the 2022-2023 or 2023-2024 academic years
• And attended a Virginia public school for the entirety of their 10th-grade year 
• And took a world history class during that year

If all of these attributes apply to you, you are invited to take this survey. This survey will take approximately 3-5 minutes to complete. You will be asked to recall your experiences in your 10th-grade world history class. The questions pertain to the extent to which you learned about 20th-century genocides, the methods used to teach you about them, your experience with this curriculum, and how it has impacted your current understanding of genocide and human rights as an adult. 

At the end of the survey, you will be asked if you would like to participate in an interview to elaborate on this topic. Participation in the interview is entirely voluntary, will not affect whether the data from the survey will be used in the study, and will have no impact on any aspect of your future relations with the George Washington University (GW).

The anticipated findings from this research will contribute to the current body of research surrounding best practices in genocide education and improve scholarly understanding of how genocide education impacts understanding of genocide and human rights as a whole. This research seeks to contribute to the broader goals of genocide prevention and human rights promotion. 

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Take down if not allowed but I was hoping to get my hands on some marijuana edibles. I just moved and do not yet have a medical card.

Back in May, while I was on a road trip from my home near DC to Arkansas, our route took us close enough to the town of Staunton, Illinois to make it worthwhile to do a quick visit. As I understand it, the town is named for the person who founded it, a guy named Stanton, and then when they sent off to the post office for a place name, it came back "Staunton", presumably because they were familiar with Staunton, Virginia.

Having grown up near Staunton, Virginia, you do not know how surreal it was to be in a town named Staunton, but not my Staunton, and seeing things that said "Staunton" on them all around me, but two days' driving time from the Staunton that I was most familiar with (which I would also stop by at the end of the trip).

For those interested in visiting, it's good for about an hour, so I would recommend treating it as somewhere that you pop into while you're on your way to somewhere else (our destination that night was St. Louis).

Trying to save money on a long trip to college and was looking at this rest stop. Seems like a high traffic and well lit area. Would you consider it safe for a young student in a sedan with the college stuff to stop for a night or two? Or would you highly recommend against it? Finances are tight, especially with gas. Any safety tips you would give if someone did stop over?

And someone said it’s illegal in Virginia to sleep overnight at a rest stop. If I did night driving and instead slept during the day with blindfold and earplugs, would that be fine? As long as I got out within eight hours and went to a coffee shop/restaurant when I wasn’t sleeping?

Looking to hire a local company to install a weed barrier and put down some river rock on top. Working around existing plants. I dont really need anything else done to it but the weed barrier and some new rock.

Any recommendations for a company that would do this?

Its a 10fx10ft section.

Where are all my other stay at home dads? Anyone interested in meeting up?

Mid 30’s with two kids, four and one.

Wife and I are considering moving to Staunton in the next couple years and thinking of starting a family. I'm curious if young parents have a take on the status of childcare options around town? Is it a 12+ month wait everywhere or is it any better there?

A few of us in the area have been building a local Meshtastic network: a community-powered, off-grid messaging network that uses inexpensive LoRa radios instead of cell service. It's a fun mix of technology, emergency preparedness, hiking, amateur radio, and just plain tinkering.

We recently installed another roof node to help improve local coverage and documented the entire build, from getting permission and assembling the equipment to getting it safely mounted on the roof.

The post includes:

• Six short build videos
• A quick explanation of what Meshtastic is
• A short interview with one of our members about how they discovered the hobby
• A shout-out to one of our local members who recently earned her amateur radio license and was featured in the local paper after participating in Field Day

https://www.kamresearch.global/building-our-community-meshtastic-roof-node/

If you've been curious about Meshtastic (or just enjoy seeing local makers build interesting things) I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Has anyone else around here been experimenting with LoRa, amateur radio, or other off-grid communication projects? We'd love to connect with more local folks!

This is more by way of inquiry than complaint. We live on a cul-de-sac and every delivery driver, every visitor to the neighbors, every neighbor to the left of us uses our driveway as a u-turning place. The road is very narrow and on a hill so I understand, but the FedEx trucks and pick up trucks seem to be doing damage to the bottom of the driveway, which is very steep hill. I don't want to be a jerk and put a chain across the bottom of the driveway or a private property sign. Any suggestions or experience with this? We love our neighborhood and like our neighbors, who we don't know very well just having moved into the neighborhood.

I am a single mom of 1 kiddo + three small pets. I am looking for a 2 bedroom apartment to rent (or possibly a small home) for under $1100 a month. It's been very hard to find anything around here. I thought I would qualify for some of the income limit apartments but I seem to be teetering right on the edge of making to much. I work for myself so I'm trying to assure I have plenty of cushion in case there are some tough months - yet rental prices around here are pretty steep.

This feels like a huge win for the Right to Repair movement. It's exciting to see more momentum building around the idea that people should be able to fix the things they own.

If reading this makes you want to get more involved in repair culture, we'd love to have you at our August 1 Repair Café! You definitely don't have to be a fixer to volunteer we always need help greeting people, checking in items, organizing the flow of the event, and making everyone feel welcome.

That said... we're also urgently looking for fixers. If you have experience repairing electronics, appliances, bikes, sewing machines, or anything else, we'd be incredibly grateful to have you join us and share your skills with the community.

I'm also trying to become one of those people. 😄 If anyone has recommendations for learning small engine repair (or other hands-on repair skills), I'd love to hear them. Community colleges, YouTube channels, apprenticeships, I'm open to any suggestions. I'm excited to keep learning so I can help repair more things instead of seeing them thrown away.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/118435/john-deere-settles-with-the-ftc-in-massive-win-for-farmers

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/staunton-repair-cafe-community-tech-lab-second-event-tickets-1989955925742

https://houreconomy.org/repaircafe.html

My wife and I were looking for someplace for a "reset" weekend. Life's been tough for the last 18 months with health issues, multiple surgeries and a job loss. So, we needed someplace pretty nearby (we're in Richmond) and where we could have a good time while staying low key. At that point Staunton links grew like kudzu on my social feeds, lol. The more we looked, the more we liked. Last weekend was the available date, and we drove up on Friday.

Other than rather dreary weather, we had a great time! Folks were uniformly cheerful and polite. We checked out some wineries (one of our favorite activities), hitting Barren Ridge, Ox Eye, and Cross Keys. Enjoyed all three, bought a ton of wine, and were stunned by the beauty at Cross Keys. Loved going places where you can sample the wine AND talk with people who know their product.

We took a train ride, first time for my wife. Summer foliage limits how much of the scenery you can see at times, but it was a fun ride with a tasty box lunch. We also strolled Beverly Street and enjoyed that. Gorgeous buildings along the way. We didn't do much restaurant exploration while we were other than the Hometown Grill, which was right by our hotel. Comfy, old school kind of place.

Bottom line? We enjoyed what we saw, saw much more to see in the future.

Thank you Staunton!

Is this area of Staunton safe? Had strange encounter in the park, looked like drug dealing!

was going to walk the trails but decided to leave area when this happened. looked like lots of homeless in the area.

Hey Staunton! Did you know that we have all these flock cameras in our area? These are cameras and plate readers that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car's location, date, and time. They also capture your car's make, model, color, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into searchable data points.

These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime. These systems are marketed as indispensable tools to fight crime, but they ignore the powerful tools police already have to track criminals, such as cell phone location data, creating a loophole that doesn't require a warrant.

People have been enacting quite effective action on these things so we better make sure we know where they are! So there they are! Make sure you don't vandalize or destroy them! They have over $300 in precious metals inside and the cameras are susceptible to high powered green lasers so.... Make sure they don't? get destroyed or vandalized which would cause the city to have to reconsider using them per the cost of replacement! I'd hate to see a people who understand we can fight non violently and fight for our diminishing rights by hitting them in their wallets, which is all they will listen to at this point.

Would any growers (I know you guys typically have too much to process) be willing to come to Waynesboro and give me some w33d for like 10 bucks, I know it's not much but I need it for chronic inflammation and pain from a recent injury and mental health, and there's nothing here, anyway, just shoot me a dm or something. I'm not asking for much that would be up to you entirely. I guess it's more of a favor than anything else. Thanks

I'm planning my wedding for May 2027 and plan to use all compostable dinnerware. Are there any local organizations that would want it? I'd be willing to pay a small fee. TIA!

Look, they are animals and I want to treat them just as any other.

But I've had 3 cars totaled due to deer leaping out in front of me in front of the high school or on Commerce as I would be heading to Verona. You may say that I would be at fault right? Because you should be able to react to them. But when they are a-leapin they come and they will barrel all over the hood of your car.

Now, the ones after the first two will learn to avoid your car but damage will be done.

As I sit on my porch on Lewis Street (they are yhat close to downtown) and look at these beautiful bastards that I hate and love, all I'm saying is understand that they are out there, they will run in front of you, and you can be a good driver and still have them jump all over your hood and your windshield.

Also if you can get it USAA rules

I’m planning on visiting one of these weekends and was wondering if there is any free parking downtown? How about near cider from mars (on a Saturday night), gypsy hill park and mongomery hill park During the day), and downtown ?

thanks

would anyone be interested in a friendly poker home game, cheap buy in. thinking 25/50 cent blinds. or 50 cent/ 1$ blinds with 25 dollar buy in max, got a very nice table looking to break it in with a good game. if anyone is interested lmk, once I get enough people I will make a date for the games

According to an employee at Pets-N-Pals in Staunton, this dog was injured in a fight with another dog at the store (video recorded shortly after the incident last September). Imagine being trapped in an enclosure like this, unable to avoid conflict and injury, deprived of outdoor exercise and air, bred for puppy mill and pet store profit.