More tree stands go up in southwest Virginia, protesting the Mountain Valley Pipeline… The man who punched Jason Kessler gets punished – he’ll have to pay a $1 fine… A hospital in Augusta County finds that locally-grown food can be the best medicine….

Hospital food gets a bad rap, but Augusta Health in Fishersville is trying to change that. The hospital has harvested roughly 10,000 pounds of fresh produce so far this year from an on-site farm. It’s part of an initiative to improve the quality of food inside the hospital and raise awareness that good nutrition is the best medicine. WMRA’s Jessie Knadler reports.

Sixth District candidates agree to two debates this fall… A national non-profit weighs in against two Confederate statues in Charlottesville… UVa says it will spend more money to honor the enslaved people who helped build and maintain the school….

Staunton may be one step closer to a decision on whether to change the name of Robert E. Lee High School... A Frederick County Sheriff's Deputy and his wife are killed in a motorcycle crash in Luray… A Charlottesville interfaith organization plans to publicly certify employers who pay their workers at least twice the federal minimum wage….

A recent USA Today report named Harrisonburg as the Virginia city “hit hardest by extreme poverty.” City officials say that report is misleading. And advocates for people in need point to other measures of poverty. WMRA’s Christopher Clymer Kurtz reports.

The cost of health insurance for those buying plans in Virginia’s marketplace may stabilize soon… Is Harrisonburg really the Virginia city “hit hardest by extreme poverty”?... Lexington is still trying to recover its tourism vibe after June’s Red Hen incident….

The trial of the man accused of killing Heather Heyer will remain in Charlottesville… Lawmakers are under pressure to redraw Virginia’s voting districts, but they got little done on Thursday… We visit with a group of singers who help patients at the threshold of death….

Across the nation and beyond – and now in Harrisonburg – local choirs have formed to sing at the bedsides of people in end-of-life care – patients who are at the “thresholds of life.” The singers are part of “threshold choirs,” as WMRA’s Christopher Clymer Kurtz reports.

Federal regulators are allowing construction to resume along a portion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline's route… State Democrats put their proposed fix to the state’s electoral map on the table, after the Republican-drawn map was ruled an unconstitutional gerrymander… While Sixth District Republicans admit to an FEC violation, the candidates to replace Bob Goodlatte agree to one debate, with a plan for two more still up in the air….

Harrisonburg officials say reports of extreme poverty are exaggerated – and reflect the fact that it’s a college town… A 17-year-old boy in Waynesboro is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound… Virginia is preparing to mark a painful anniversary—the first Africans brought to English America as slaves….