
Reading/signing at Bookworks
Charlottesville author brings introspective novel for reading/signing event: The Algebra of Snow–A Bedtime Story for My Mother, by Ginger Moran, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2-4 p.m., Bookworks, 101 W. Beverley St., Staunton.

Charlottesville author brings introspective novel for reading/signing event: The Algebra of Snow–A Bedtime Story for My Mother, by Ginger Moran, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2-4 p.m., Bookworks, 101 W. Beverley St., Staunton.

A student in a Building the Machine marketing class that I was teaching recently was surprised to learn that I had anything positive to say about traditional forms of advertising.

Mike Burris has been named vice president and chief financial officer for the Sentara Blue Ridge Region, which is currently comprised of RMH Healthcare in Harrisonburg and Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville.

One proud graduate came from Oregon. Another from Lancaster, Pa. They were two of nine who gathered one day in the fall of 2012 to celebrate completing the first online master’s degree program offered at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) – a master’s of science in nursing program.

A source told me Wednesday night that Virginia is actively pursuing former N.C. State football coach Tom O’Brien for a position on Mike London’s staff at UVa.

Jim Reid is gone from the University of Virginia after his defense finished fourth in the Atlantic Coast Conference in total defense. Bill Lazor, meanwhile, continues to be employed after his UVa. offense finished eighth in the conference in total offense and ninth in scoring offense.

The Virginia women’s basketball team earned a 90-68 victory at Minnesota in an ACC/Big Ten Challenge game.

Aaron’s, a national leader in the sales and lease ownership and specialty retailing of residential and office furniture, consumer electronics, home appliances and accessories, has signed on as the title sponsor of New Year’s Chaos, Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, at the Virginia Horse Center in Lexington, Va.

Here’s what’s going through Mike London’s head as the clock continued to tick in the closing moments in Lane Stadium Saturday. No way our offense can move the ball. And even if we move the ball, no way our kicker makes a kick. That’s why I tried that ridiculous fake field goal in the third quarter up a touchdown with the momentum going our way. Best thing we can do here is let the clock run down, hope he misses it, and then we go to overtime.

It was a small sample size, admittedly, but through three games, two of them ugly losses, and a stretch that saw Virginia average 54 points per contest, it was looking like a lost season in the making for Coach Tony Bennett. Enter Teven Jones, a redshirt freshman from Fishburne Military School, who had to sit out the opener, a 63-59 loss to George Mason, for an undisclosed violation of team rules, then Virginia’s split of its first two games in the Preseason NIT with a pinched nerve that had threatened to put him on the shelf for an extended period of time.
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