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As Americans we get it when folks in other countries have riots for freedom. After all, high school history class thought us about the Boston Massacre, the British response to riotous Bostonians, unhappy with London’s unpopular rule.
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Loren Swartzendruber, president of Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), announced to the university community today that he plans to retire next year, on June 30, 2016, marking 13 years of leadership as the university’s eighth president and 33 years in Mennonite higher education roles.
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‘Columbia Gas of Virginia, a member of the Common Ground Alliance (CGA) and Virginia 811, announced that CGA and more than 30 of its member organizations have partnered to sponsor jockey Victor Espinoza, who will ride the early favorite at this Saturday’s 141st running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.
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The Shenandoah Valley Writing Project (SVWP) has been awarded $20,000 from the U.S. Department of Education through a Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) Teacher Leadership Development Grant.
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Jump-start your spring with a don’t miss event, the 56th Shenandoah Antiques Expo, Friday, May 8 (9 a.m. to 6 p.m.) and Saturday, May 9 (8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m.) at the Augusta Expoland (I-64, Exit 91) in Fishersville, Va.
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Virginians considering adding English ivy, golden bamboo or Japanese barberry to their yards might want to reconsider. Those plants and 87 others are on the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation’s new list of non-native invasive plants at dcr.virginia.gov.
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Area chefs involved in the creation of St. Anne’s-Belfield School’s French Food for Kids app lunched on campus today and enjoyed their own recipes in celebration of the successful app launch.
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The computer sciences are often thought of as purely objective, devoid of ethics. But, as computer science professor Dee Weikle explains, every single computer program contains its writer’s conscious and unconscious values.
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About a hundred people gathered at a candlelight vigil this week on the Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) campus to show their support for Mennonite pastor Max Villatoro.
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With the rise in bottled water and sugary beverage alternatives, regular tap water is struggling to make its way into the daily U.S. diet.
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