Virginia City booms on Memorial Day (Montana Standard) VIRGINIA CITY — Memorial Day weekend proves to be eventful in historic Virginia City. The opening night of the Brewery Follies is May 26 and will continue thru Sept. 3. Shows are performed nightly at the old Gilbert Brewery.

Ten Percent of Area Residents To Travel This Weekend (NBC4 Washington, D.C.) One in 10 Washington, D.C., area residents will travel out of the region for Memorial Day weekend, the first long weekend of the summer, officials with the American Automobile Association told NBC 4.

Maersk, Duke and US rails to bring China to Ohio (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The hundreds of empty containers stacked beside the rails near the Norfolk Southern Corp. Portlock rail yard in Chesapeake, Virginia, look ready to board ship here on the U.S. East Coast and head back to China, but they are going nowhere.

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Amid high gas prices, traditional 'summer' travel season begins (phillyburbs.com) NEWARK, N.J. - Gas prices have skyrocketed, but they're not stopping summer car travel for people such as Carolyn Johnson.