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We recently reported on Bill Buck, a long-time resident of Northern Virginia who covered the Mid-Atlantic region as a professional baseball scout for the Detroit Tigers before retiring in 2015.
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It was the spring of 1993, and baseball scouts were flocking to Southwest Virginia to see Billy Wagner, a hard-throwing lefty pitcher for Ferrum College.
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We got us some rain in the past week, up to six inches in some parts of Virginia, but we’re still not out of the woods in terms of the ongoing long-term drought.
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People look to their local elected leaders to do things: from the granular – traffic signals, leaf pick-up – to the epic – housing for all, redressing systemic racism, “solving” mental health.
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After transferring from Buffalo Gap High School, Jackson Ingram played infield for two years at the Miller School of Albemarle for Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Billy Wagner.
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The Cleveland Guardians outfield has been in flux of late, due in part to injuries – including one to former JMU star Chase DeLauter.
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In 1971, Mike Caldwell was drafted by the San Diego Padres out of North Carolina State after he had played for the Charlottesville Hornets of the Valley Baseball League while in college.
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Kirby Dean is the former head basketball coach at Waynesboro High School and EMU, a Division III program he took to the Elite Eight in 2010 in a seminal moment in the school’s athletic history.
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100 Black Men of Central Virginia has awarded college scholarships to 54 high-school seniors from across the Greater Charlottesville region.
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An AFP reader shared with us a Facebook thread in which two people posted threats of violence to people planning to attend the No Kings rally in Staunton on Saturday.
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