art in the park

JMU women enter national rankings

   Staff Report JMU sports: www.jmusports.com The James Madison women’s basketball program is ranked 24th in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 media poll. JMU has a 7-0 record that includes a 75-73 win at Virginia, ranked 19th by AP this week. Last week the Dukes received votes in both the AP media poll and [...]

Posted December 14, 2009  

An explanation for cuts at the Leader?

A story in today’s Wall Street Journal on the sudden and unexpected retirement of USA Today president and publisher Craig Moon had an interesting nugget about how the decline in travel has been impacting circulation at the flagship newspaper in the Gannett chain. Moon told the Journal that USA Today has lost about 100,000 papers [...]

Posted April 1, 2009  

Local community-college student earns First Team honors

Item by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net A Batesville native has been named to the All-USA Community College First Team by USA Today, the American Association of Community Colleges and Phi Theta Kappa, the national honor society for two-year college students. Jacob Neal is one of 10 students being honored today as a member of Virginia’s First [...]

Posted April 16, 2008