
JMU’s leading scorer to sit first half of NCAA game after arrest
Rayshawn Goins will miss the first half of JMU’s first-round NCAA Tournament game against LIU-Brooklyn Tuesday night after a weekend arrest following a team party.

Rayshawn Goins will miss the first half of JMU’s first-round NCAA Tournament game against LIU-Brooklyn Tuesday night after a weekend arrest following a team party.

As part of its ongoing strategic transformation, the News Leader is placing its property at 11 North Central Avenue in Staunton for sale and has begun exploring real estate options that better meets its future business needs.

As a kickoff to the 13th annual Virginia Fly Fishing and Wine Festival, the film “Where The Yellowstone Goes,” a feature documentary film from award-winning filmmaker Hunter Weeks, will be shown at the Court Square Theatre in Harrisonburg, VA on Friday, April 19, 2013 at 7:30 pm. Proceeds from this showing will go to help fund the operations of the Virginia Fly Fishing and Wine Festival and its foundation conservation efforts.

Phillip C. Stone, president emeritus of Bridgewater College, will headline the college’s Scott Symposium on Business Ethics on March 19.

Emmy-award winning writer/director and James Madison University professor Thomas O’Connor’s latest film, Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene, is set for its North American premiere on Friday, March 29, at 10:30 pm on WVPT and PBS stations across the country. The film captures the enigmatic life of British author Graham Greene. British actor Sir Derek Jacobi is the film’s narrator. Actor Bill Nighy (Love Actually, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) provides the voice of the author.

The Kentucky State University Concert Choir will be performing a general assembly for the students at Robert E. Lee High School on Monday, March 11, at 9 a.m.

Night of the Superstars has broken all presale records for local independent pro-wrestling shows in the Shenandoah Valley with more than 425 tickets sold online — more than five weeks before the live show gets under way.

If Virginia is for music lovers, WVPT viewers can look forward to a new program premiering Saturday, March 23 on the PBS affiliate. Aux Send will feature up and coming independent artists and bands, most of which are Virginia-based.

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for the Staunton-Waynesboro-Augusta and Harrisonburg-Rockingham areas with a forecast for 10-14 inches of snow in the areas and higher accumulations possible.

The Mu Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi at James Madison University proudly presents the second annual MARCH FOR MEALS 5K benefiting Valley Program for Aging Services.
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