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After trailing by 10 points entering the fourth quarter, the Lady Monarchs basketball team put together a valiant comeback, but fell by five points, 62-57, to the Richmond Spiders in the 2015-16 regular season opener.
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Augusta Free Press staff writer Scott German leads our live coverage of tonight’s 2015-2016 season opener for sixth-ranked UVA, which faces Morgan State at 7 p.m. at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville. Scott will provide live score updates, commentary, analysis and more from JPJ.
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Can text messages help assuage the phenomenon of “summer melt,” when students, mostly lower on the socio-economic spectrum, fail to enroll in college even after they have been accepted?
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The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week. Traffic movements may be restricted and speed limits reduced in work zones. (NEW) or (UPDATE) indicate revisions since last week’s report.
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It’s been eight months now since my father died. I knew I should expect some depression but not like the pain I feel every day. I thought by now I would be feeling a little less sad. It’s not working that way at all. I have an emptiness that hurts.
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It was one of those days where the heat takes your breath away. It was mid-summer in our nation’s capital and the sun beat down on the marble monuments and city sidewalks. I squinted my eyes and stood shoulder to shoulder with members of my staff handing out water bottles as our guests filed off of the buses, slowly but determined, one by one. They were eager. And so were we.
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The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton transportation district during the coming weeks. The Staunton district is comprised of 11 counties: Alleghany, Bath, Rockbridge, Augusta, Highland, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Frederick, Page, Warren and Clarke.
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Project GROWS, a non-profit educational farm located in Augusta County, will host its first-ever Celebration to benefit Project GROWS on Friday, Nov. 20 at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel in Downtown Staunton.
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Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham leads our live coverage of today’s ACC football showdown between UVA (3-5, 1-3 ACC) and Miami (5-3, 3-2 ACC). The game kicks off at 3 p.m. Chris will provide score updates, stats, analysis, commentary and more. Feel free to join in with your own observations, commentaries and questions.
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During her sabbatical, Eastern Mennonite University English professor Marti Eads is studying how, in one author’s fiction, “the Civil War conflict reverberates in one Appalachian community even after most people there are no longer consciously aware of its relevance.”
