art in the park

Liberty outmuscles Keydets

  Staff Report VMI sports: www.vmikeydets.com The Liberty Flames used a 66-32 advantage in points in the paint and a 53-25 rebounding margin to prevail, 91-73, over the visiting VMI Keydets Thursday night in a Big South contest played at the Vines Center in Lynchburg, Va. Despite a 27-12 halftime rebounding edge, the homestanding Flames’ [...]

Posted January 29, 2010  

VMI holds off game Southern Virginia

  Staff Report VMI sports: www.vmikeydets.com VMI’s Stan Okoye posted his fifth straight game of at least 20 points and 10 rebounds, and the Keydets outlasted a strong Southern Virginia effort to earn a 99-87 victory over the Knights in a non-conference contest played at Cameron Hall Tuesday evening. After battling through a close game [...]

Posted January 27, 2010  

Helping disabled veterans

   Column by David Cox Submit guest columns: freepress2@ntelos.net As the General Convention goes about its business in Richmond, it’ll take up a matter that everyone voted for last time. Before they do again, I hope they’ll look at a better way of meeting their objective: helping disabled veterans. Last winter, the House and Senate [...]

Posted January 26, 2010  

VMI holds off High Point

   Staff Report VMI sports: www.vmikeydets.com VMI junior guard Austin Kenon converted six straight free throws in the final 14.1 seconds of regulation to hold off the High Point University Panthers and give VMI a 94-91 win before a sellout crowd at the Millis Center Saturday night. VMI won its first road game of 2009-2010 [...]

Posted January 24, 2010  

‘Y’ not?

   Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: freepress2@ntelos.net The times are tough. And local budgets will be as tough to balance as having an elephant walk across a balance beam. Where do we begin? Cut spending and raise taxes are the answers usually given. The right says cut; the left says raise. But such [...]

Posted January 22, 2010  

Radford gets 30 from Parakhouski in win over VMI

   Staff Report VMI sports: www.vmikeydets.com Center Art Parakhouski scored 30 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead Radford to a 109-91 win over VMI Thursday night at the Dedmon Center. VMI was led by freshman forward Stan Okoye, who produced his third consecutive double-double game with a career-high 23 points and 10 rebounds. 2008 [...]

Posted January 22, 2010  

What should it do?

   Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: freepress2@ntelos.net That’s the multi-trillion-dollar question. It is that big a question because it is one that requires all of us to answer. Yet it is directed to only one segment of our economy, the one with an obesity problem. The “it,” of course, is government. What should [...]

Posted January 20, 2010  

VMI rally falls short, Keydets fall to Gardner-Webb

   Staff Report VMI sports: www.vmikeydets.com A late VMI flurry fell short, as the Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs defeated the Keydets 92-84 in a Big South contest at Cameron Hall Saturday evening. Trailing by nine with 1:08 to play, a three-point play by Michael Sparks cut the GWU lead to six, 84-78. After two free throws [...]

Posted January 18, 2010  

Looking up

   Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: freepress2@ntelos.net Now let’s see if I’ve got this right. We are just into the new year and the sky has not yet fallen. Yes, I know, no one actually predicted that the clouds would fall. Nevertheless, there were those who kept saying that whatever keeps the human [...]

Posted January 14, 2010  

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