VA selects site for Staunton clinic
Staff Report
The VA Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network and Salem VA Medical Center announced today that a site has been selected for the establishment of a Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Staunton.
The clinic will be located at 1002 Natasha Way in Staunton. VA will lease space within a building that will be constructed on the property. When completed, the facility will provide 7,500 net usable square feet of clinic space. Read more
Brown tapped as Big South player of the week
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Liberty redshirt freshman guard Devon Brown has been recognized as the Big South Women’s Basketball Choice Hotels Player of the Week, after helping the Lady Flames go 3-0 and win the Navy Classic title last week.
Brown, a 2008 Waynesboro High School grad, who averaged 21.0 ppg and 10.7 rpg for the week, is the first Liberty freshman to earn a Big South Women’s Basketball Player of the Week award since Megan Frazee, who captured the honor on Dec. 5, 2005 and Jan. 16, 2006. Read more
Frank Beamer | Weekly Press Conference
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Opening Statement: When you talk about Virginia, we are familiar with a lot of their personnel. They have had a lot of injuries, but they are getting some of those guys back. They play very tough and are relentless. They keep coming after you. If you look at last year, that was a four-quarter game and we were lucky to win that thing. You can throw the record books out for a game like this, and I think you can. We are playing at their place, and we had better get ready to play our very, very best. Read more
House panel drops inquiry into Hamilton
Story by Chris Graham
The investigation by a House of Delegates panel into the actions of former State Del. Phil Hamilton relative to a job at Old Dominion University created through state funds that he had pushed for in the General Assembly came to an end this month when the panel decided that it had no jurisdiction over the matter once Hamilton resigned his House seat. Read more
ACC football press conference quotes
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Frank Spaziani – Boston College
Opening statement: By now, the freshman (Dave Shinskie) is not a freshman and he has played and has the experience. One thing that happened (Saturday) is that, as a team, the line is moving forward but we still have some injuries that are falling backwards. We are a team that is very fragile, but collectively, can win every game. Read more
Tech adds JMU to football schedule in ’10
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James Madison and Virginia Tech will play during the 2010 football season, athletics directors at the two universities announced Tuesday.
The game is schedule for Sept. 11 in Blacksburg and will be the seventh series meeting.
On JMU’s slate of 2010 games, the contest with Virginia Tech replaces a scheduled meeting with Virginia Military Institute. Virginia Tech had been scheduled to play Western Michigan Sept. 11, but pushed the game to the 2016 season, allowing Western Michigan to accept an offer to play Notre Dame.
JMU last played Virginia Tech during the 2003 season, and all of the series meetings have taken place in Blacksburg. The teams also met in 1980, 1988, 1991, 1992 and 1999. Virginia Tech has won each of the series games.
Million-dollar project improves fog lights on Afton Mountain
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The Virginia Department of Transportation recently replaced the 841 lamps in the fog-light system on Interstate 64 on Afton Mountain. The incandescent lights originally installed in 1997 were replaced with LED lamps that will require less maintenance and use about 75 percent less energy.
The fog-light system helps to safely guide motorists during bad weather and low visibility, which is a frequent occurrence on Afton Mountain. The lights are installed along the edges of the roadway from milepost 98 in Augusta County to milepost 104 in Albemarle County. The system is designed for airports and is the only non-runway application of the lights in Virginia. Read more
A simple solution on health-care reform
Column by Robert Dean Banta
With all the details and sideline deal-making of the current health-care reform efforts it seems the answer of how to pay for health care must be much simpler than the tangled spaghetti Congress now twirls their forks around.
In imagining what I want out of health-care reform I have come up with the following idea, which does everything Congress and the president are now trying to do, but just through a much simpler plan. I will call my plan, The Banta Plan, after my last name and with more than a little fun poked at myself. Read more
UVa., Politico to host conference on ’10 elections
Staff Report
Leading journalists, party insiders, and political analysts will share their views on the upcoming 2010 midterm elections at an afternoon conference sponsored by the University of Virginia Center for Politics and Politico. The 11th annual American Democracy Conference will be held at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, December 3 from 1-5 p.m. Read more
Eastern Mennonite Seminary features new divinity offering
Story by Laura Lehman Amstutz
Eastern Mennonite Seminary is offering students a new opportunity in the master of divinity degree. An academic track has been added to the three-year MDiv program as part of an overall curriculum revision.
This track will give students opportunity for more study in their field of interest and better prepare them for teaching, writing and ongoing scholarship. Read more
Dukes win second straight
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Freshman guard Darren White (Danville, Va./Dan River) posted 20 points and nine rebounds to lead James Madison past North Carolina Central 79-66 on Monday in the final contest of the 2009 2K Sports Classic benefitting Coaches vs. Cancer at Florida International’s U.S. Century Bank Arena.
JMU won its second in a row to improve to 2-2 for the season and 2-1 in the three-game Miami Regional in the 2K Sports Classic. NCCU fell to 1-5 for the season after going 0-3 in Miami. Read more
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A Dad’s Point of View | Raising kids takes a lot of luck
Posted on November 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Column by Bruce Sallan
Or, the recent visit from my best friend who shared a conversation he just had with his wife in which they were each trying to figure out what they did wrong that resulted in their three adult children lacking any career focus in their lives. And, finally, the two men I know who are suffering the horrors of dealing with late teen or young adult drug addicts. Read more
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