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The 14-hour flight from Washington, D.C., to Beijing was the first time Josh Martin had ever flown. It was also the first time he’d been out of the country, and pretty much the first time he had ever really traveled at all, except for the away games that occasionally took him out of state during his four years as an infielder for the baseball team at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU).
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Virginia Tech, at 4-4, still, surprisingly, has its ACC Championship Game destiny in its hands. AugustaFreePress.com editor Chris Graham breaks down the Hokies’ hopes to stay alive in the ACC title race in this installment of “The Chris Graham Show.”
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Sarah Chase of Lexington met recently with Philippe Labro, author, filmmaker and alumnus of Washington and Lee University, in Besançon, France.
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Stanley Ann Dunham, Barack Obama’s mother, wasn’t just a white woman from Kansas who fell in love with a Kenyan student, nor just an anthropologist who became an American president’s mother.
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An innovative art installation, Concatenation, will be hosted in an unlikely site certain to challenge the traditional art-going experience. Virginia-based Italian artist Daniel Rossi and Dutch artist Dymphna de Wild will create site-specific installations in the transformed barn on historic Cobble Hill Farm in Staunton. The barn will be converted into a one-of-a-kind art experience for one day only, Sunday, October 28th from 3-8 p.m.
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October 20th brings some local favorites to the 1st night of Mojo Saturday Night’s second season! Hosted by Kevin Chisnell, Mojo Saturday Night has established itself as a magnet for Blues lovers from Central Virginia. The evening starts at 8 pm at 329 West Main at WTA’s Gateway. Doors open at 7:30 pm.
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When you’re asked about your team’s ongoing five-game losing streak, and your response is to start talking about how the program is having success in the classroom and in other areas of life, well, you’re pretty much Ted Roof on your way out the door at Duke, right?
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Maryland raced out to a 17-0 first-quarter lead and held on late to post a 27-20 victory over Virginia on Saturday in Charlottesville.
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Shenandoah Junction: The Valley Baseball League is heading to the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia
The Charles Town Cannons will join the 12-team, NCAA-sanctioned Valley League after the Fuller Family of Berryville, Va., chose to relocate its team from Luray, Va.
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The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) announced today that Albemarle, Nelson and Page counties have received U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) designation as primary disaster areas due to excessive rain, hail, high winds and lightning associated with a derecho that occurred between June 28 and July 3, 2012.
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