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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan will present the keynote address for Washington and Lee University’s 10th annual Tom Wolfe Weekend Seminar on Friday, April 5, at 4 p.m. in Lee Chapel.
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The VMI Keydets scored six times in the second inning, and that was more than enough support for T.J. Lighton, who went on to fire a complete-game shutout and lead VMI to an 8-0 win over the Virginia Tech Hokies Tuesday night at English Field in Blacksburg, Va.
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April is Poetry Month! SWAG Writers (The Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta Group of the Virginia Writers Club) Reading Series continues in April with a reading by poets Stephen Cushman (Riffraff, LSU Press 2011), Sara Robinson, and Leah Naomi Green.
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Rob Pannell found Steve Mock on the crease with 13 seconds left to lift the No. 3 Cornell Big Red (5-0) over the No. 8 UVa. Cavaliers (5-2) on Saturday evening inside Klöckner Stadium, 12-11. Cornell scored five goals in the fourth quarter to outlast the Cavaliers.
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Due to illness, Carsten Schmidt must postpone the scheduled lecture-recital and Bach Fantasias and English Suites programs this weekend. Staunton Music Festival organizers said today that will do all we can to either refund money to those who have purchased tickets to either or both events or alert you when they have rescheduled the events. The family concert, Saturday at 3pm, will go ahead as planned.
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LEARN (Learn English and Reading Now), the nonprofit organization that provides free, confidential, one-on-one tutoring for adults in basic reading and writing – and in English for Speakers of Other Languages – in Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta County, is seeking volunteer tutors to participate in its next training session on Saturday, March 16, from 9:00 am-4:00 pm at the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship located at 565 Pine Avenue in Waynesboro.
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SWAG Writers (The Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta Group of the Virginia Writers Club) presents a Playwriting Workshop for beginning and intermediate writers interested in writing for the theater. The instructor is prize-winning playwright Chris Gavaler.
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The ACLU of Virginia on Monday sent a letter to the Fairfax County School Board thanking the Board and Superintendent for upholding free speech in two recent incidents: a parent’s attempt to have a book removed from the curriculum, and a request that a community group be denied permission to use school property for a controversial meeting. The school division denied the requests in both instances.
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) have reintroduced their legislation to make substantial improvements in the states’ administration of their elections and to make voting faster and more accessible to all voters.
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Local novelist Inman Majors will read from his most recent book, a comedy about SEC football, Wednesday, Jan. 23, at James Madison University.
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