
Ward: Focus on prayers for ‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair
Top Rope General Manager Marvin Ward issued the following statement on the health status of 16-time world champion “Nature Boy” Ric Flair, who was hospitalized on Monday.

Top Rope General Manager Marvin Ward issued the following statement on the health status of 16-time world champion “Nature Boy” Ric Flair, who was hospitalized on Monday.

Does Top Rope have its own Florida Gulf Coast? We’ll find out with the inaugural Night of the Superstars Bracket Challenge – through which you, the fans, will determine your favorite Top Rope Superstar!

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. Work scheduled is subject to change due to inclement weather and material supplies. Motorists are advised to watch for slow-moving tractors during mowing operations. Also, when traveling through a work zone, be alert to periodic changes in traffic patterns and lane closures.

Local Charlottesville area swimmers of the Charlottesville Swans Synchronized Swimming team competed against other synchronized swimming teams from around Virginia in the Capitol Classic on Sunday, March 17.

Otep, a Numetal band formed in 2000 fronted by Otep Shamaya, has been a favorite of mine for about three years now. The dark, poetic, and heavily political lyrics of the Smash The Control Machine album drew me in. I dived into other albums from them and I was hooked. Otep’s most recent album, Hydra (2013), was said to be the band’s very last album by the frontwoman herself.

It’s all about money, in the end. Keep that in mind when you’re thinking through your marketing.

Today, Dancing Star Farm, a permaculture farm in Augusta County, announced that it will be accepting CSA membership to participate in their third annual Community Supported Agriculture Program.

On Wednesday, Sony held a conference call to talk up its new, eighth-generation gaming console, the PlayStation 4. I had written a column on the eighth generation one day prior to the conference. Now, I will be following up with some criticisms I have about the newest piece of hardware from Sony.

Augusta Free Press LLC has announced upcoming Building the Machine workshops for February, March and April.

In January 2011, I featured Social Media in this column. I reread it the other day and thought, “Wow, how things have changed in two years.” At that point in time I mentioned cell phones and laptops, and used the word “perhaps” in conjunction with smart phone and tablet use on the farm. For Social Media, I limited the discussion to Facebook, Twitter and blogs and only referred to “applications” once. I noticed that I wrote applications, not apps.
We don’t take press releases or official statements as the final word. Digging in to get the whole story takes time and resources.