
Field hockey: #9 UVA tops #7 Penn State in OT, 4-3
The No. 9 Virginia field hockey team (2-0) earned a 4-3 overtime victory over No. 7 Penn State (0-2) on Sunday (Aug. 30) at Turf Field in Charlottesville, Va.

The No. 9 Virginia field hockey team (2-0) earned a 4-3 overtime victory over No. 7 Penn State (0-2) on Sunday (Aug. 30) at Turf Field in Charlottesville, Va.

Gas prices have dropped recently despite ongoing refinery problems, and prices should continue to fall this autumn due to declining demand and the switchover to winter-blend gasoline.

Perhaps you think that hearing aids won’t help you, or that they are too expensive.

The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week.

The No. 9 Virginia field hockey team opened the 2015 season Friday (Aug. 28) with a 6-0 victory over Drexel at Turf Field in Charlottesville, Va.

The No. 2 Virginia men’s soccer team kicks off its 2015 season at 7 p.m. Saturday (Aug. 29) when No. 17 Charlotte comes to Klöckner Stadium. The early showdown of top-20 sides pits a pair of programs that were seeded in the 2014 NCAA Tournament.

The Waynesboro School Board is trying to cast the need for a new $76 million Waynesboro High School in economic development terms. A new school, board members have argued, will help attract new business to Waynesboro, and even if it’s just a sales pitch, it’s a sales pitch based on a valid point, when you consider how decisions are made about locating a new development project somewhere.

The United Nations of Comedy Tour returns to The Paramount Theater on Saturday, November 14. The tour brings national comedians as seen on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Ellen, NBC’s Stand Up for Diversity, Comedy Central, Comic View, TV shows, commercials and movies.

At 7:38 a.m., Tuesday (Aug. 25), Virginia State Police Trooper M.C. Brill responded to a single-vehicle crash involving a school bus. The crash occurred in the 2400 block of Hankey Mountain Highway/Route 250 in the Churchville community.

The University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies will present a panel discussion, “Engaging Race: Forum on Race, Citizenship and Social Justice,” on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in Minor Hall, room 125.
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