Focus | Moving downtown forward
WDDI discusses work plan for 2010
Story by Chris Graham
freepress2@ntelos.net
With AFP Audio
The downtown-revitalization effort in Waynesboro has been teetering for the past couple of years with the clear shift in focus of economic activity in Waynesboro to the West End on the economic side and questions about ongoing commitment from City Hall to downtown improvements on the political side.
The good news on the City Hall front from the past week regarding the newfound interest of City Council in finishing streetscape improvements on Main Street qualifies as positive momentum against that backdrop, even if the project hinges on approval of a federal-grant request and wouldn’t get going until the spring of 2011 at the earliest with that approval in hand. Read more
JMU joins regional economic-development consortium
Staff Report
James Madison University has joined a consortium of select universities from Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. that is designed to drive regional innovation, economic performance and global competitiveness.
The Chesapeake Crescent Innovation Alliance (CCIA) stated that JMU’s partnership with SRI International and its dedicated approach to undergraduate research make it a natural fit for the consortium. In addition to JMU, CCIA members are Georgetown University, George Mason University, George Washington University, Howard University, Johns Hopkins University, the University System of Maryland, University of Virginia and Virginia Tech. Read more
Dinner Diva | Clean, or clean out
Column by Leanne Ely
When you consider that we all have refrigerators and like any useful tool, they need cleaning from time to time. I really don’t think anyone needs to read a column on how to clean a fridge, and I’m going to assume we all understand how to do this (soap and water works every time!).
But what I want to talk about today is the difference between cleaning your fridge vs. cleaning OUT your fridge. And before I do, I must come clean that I had the biggest clean out I’ve had in a long, long time and I hang my head in shame. Cleaning out your fridge is akin to a physical confession that you planned poorly and didn’t have the forethought to wisely consume or freeze your food. Read more
The FlyLady | Plan your meals around soup day
Column by Marla Cilley
When Robert and I married 13 years ago, my grandmother told him I was bossy! Oh, well, you have to be known for something. I guess this is what happens when you are the oldest. My Granny started telling me to be “saving.” She had lived through the Great Depression, World War II and had been widowed at age 29 with two children. My mother was 8 years old and her brother was 6 when their father died. Granny had three mouths to feed. Read more
Al Groh | Weekly Press Conference
Staff Report
QUESTION: Are you always curious of what you hear?
COACH GROH: Both, but more than that, more than curious or surprised, mostly gratified that they express their experience the way that they do.
QUESTION: Given the amount of respect that you have for Vic Hall and all of these seniors, I guess what would it mean for the team and what would it mean for you personally to see them be successful on Saturday?
COACH GROH: Those are some – they’re not the only ones, but those players that you cited are some of the players that have certainly put everything they’ve got into this for four or five years. So we always want – that’s one of the really nice things when you’re successful in a game, that you see the pleasure on the part of the players and reinforcement that they get from everything they put into it. That would be a great thing to be able to experience together. Read more
Live Blog | The sufferings of a ‘Hoo
Column by Chris Graham
Join ACCVirginia.com editor and 1994 University of Virginia alum Chris Graham this week in “The sufferings of a ‘Hoo,” a live blog being done in advance of the Saturday football clash between UVa. and in-state rival Virginia Tech.
Chris will be posting into the comments associated with the Live Blog his thoughts heading into the game.
(Beware Al Groh, Craig Littlepage, John Casteen III, the people who rented the plane that flew over the Gator Bowl a couple of years ago, and others.)
Network change for Tech-UVa. game on Saturday
Staff Report
The Atlantic Coast Conference Monday announced that ESPN/ABC made changes in the networks for the Virginia Tech at Virginia and Miami at South Florida football games on Saturday, Nov. 28.
Virginia Tech at Virginia will now be seen on ABC regionally, at a minimum in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, most of Georgia and the District of Columbia. The game will also be shown to the rest of the country on ESPN. Read more
JMU men post first win of hoops season
Staff Report
Sophomore Julius Wells’ (Toledo, Ohio/Libbey) double-double led five players with double-figure scoring as James Madison took down Florida International 81-68 on Sunday evening in the 2K Sports Classic benefitting Coaches vs. Cancer at FIU’s U.S. Century Bank Arena.
JMU picked up its first win of the season to improve to 1-2. FIU fell to 2-4 on the season and suffered its first home loss to drop to 2-1 on its floor. Read more
Focus | Navy veteran puts military stories into print
Story by Chris Graham
freepress2@ntelos.net
John Rudolph had just been on the phone with a Navy buddy sharing stories about their days in the military.
“My wife said, You’ve got so many of those stories, you ought to write a book. I don’t know if she meant it or not, but it got me to thinking,” said Rudolph, whose first book, A Squid’s Story: My First Four Years in the United States Navy, is now available for sale online. Read more
VT’s Grimm, Render among ACC football players of the week
Staff Report
Boston College freshman outside linebacker Luke Kuechly recorded an Atlantic Coast Conference season-high 19 tackles despite the Eagles’ loss to North Carolina and Virginia Tech senior outside linebacker Cody Grimm, who forced three fumbles in the Hokies’ victory over NC State to run his season total to seven and set an ACC single-season record, highlight this week’s list of ACC Players of the Week. Grimm’s three forced fumbles also tied a Football Bowl Subdivision single-game record. Read more
Duke’s Smith, GT’s Favors earn ACC basketball honors
Staff Report
Duke’s Nolan Smith has been named ACC Player of the Week while Georgia Tech’s Derrick Favors garnered ACC Rookie of the Week honors.
Smith averaged 22.0 points, 6.0 assists and 4.0 rebounds as the eighth-ranked Blue Devils posted wins over Charlotte and Radford. On the week, Smith shot 56 percent (15-of-27) from the field, including 60 percent (6-of-10) from three-point range. Read more
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Earth Talk | The skinny on the Climate Change Conference
Posted on November 24, 2009 · 8 Comments
- F. Rojas, Oakland, Calif.
The upcoming COP15 meeting in Denmark—so named because it is the 15th such international gathering of the Conference of the Parties (COP) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—is the world’s next big chance to take decisive multi-lateral action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions substantially enough to ward off cataclysmic climate change. Read more
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