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Awards for excellence in newspaper printing nd publishing will be presented to Virginia daily and weekly newspapers on Saturday, July 21 at the awards banquet of the Virginia Press Association, the closing feature of the association’s1 annual convention.
More than; two hundred members of Virginia’s Fourth Estate will gather at the Chamberlain Hotel, Old Point Comfort for the three-day meeting which opens on Thursday.
Awards whfch will be presented to weekly papers from this area are: Excellence of front page: Class A weekly newspapers: Fauquier Democrat, first; Rockbridge County News and Loudoun Times-Mirror, ! honorable mention. Class B weekly newspapers: Blackstone Courier-Record, first; Tidewater News and Altavista Journal, honorable mention. Class C weekly newspapers: HemdonChantilly Times, first; Southside Virginia News and Goochland Gazette, honorable mention.
Excellence of general make-up: Class A weekly newspapers: Fauquier Democrat, first; CulpeperStar Exponent and South Boston News, honorable mention. Class B weekly newspapers: GloucesterMatthews Gazette Journal, first;
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