
Bridgewater College celebrates Founder’s Day on April 7
Bridgewater College will celebrate 135 years of its founding on Tuesday, April 7, presenting three awards during the 11 a.m. convocation in Nininger Hall.

Bridgewater College will celebrate 135 years of its founding on Tuesday, April 7, presenting three awards during the 11 a.m. convocation in Nininger Hall.

An eighth-inning single by Phil Sciretta broke a 5-5 tie and helped the Virginia Tech Hokies edge the VMI Keydets, 6-5, in non-conference baseball action Tuesday night at English Field in Blacksburg, Va.

Amy Azano, an assistant professor in Virginia Tech’s School of Education, will work with rural school districts in Virginia to identify gifted and talented students and develop programs to serve them, thanks to a federal grant.

On Friday, March 20th, I spoke at the University of the District of Columbia Law School in Washington, D.C., as part of a series of teach-ins about peace organized by SpringRising.org. While there, a young man in a suit with a Russian accent approached me.

Maggie Stiefvater, author of the bestselling Shiver trilogy, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, in Cole Hall at Bridgewater College.

Dr. Paul Bogard, an assistant professor of English at James Madison University and author of “The End of Night: Searching for Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light,” will do readings from his book and discuss the issue of light pollution at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 26 at Mary Baldwin College.

The University of Virginia and its Presidential Precinct partners will host Prince Charles March 18 at a global issues forum on the Magna Carta at the National Archives in Washington.

Albemarle County officials joined representatives from the Jefferson Madison Regional Library at a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of the new Northside Library project on Monday.

Attorney General Mark Herring announced that claim forms are going out today to approximately 3,050 SunTrust borrowers in Virginia who lost their homes to foreclosure between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2013 and who may be eligible for payment under the $550 million SunTrust national mortgage foreclosure settlement.

Alex Perez hit a two-out, two-run home run in the eighth inning to lift Virginia Tech to a 6-5 victory over the UVA baseball team Sunday afternoon at English Field in Blacksburg, Va.
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