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The Rocktown Rollers women’s flat-track roller-derby team will open the home portion of its 2011 schedule when it hosts the River City Rollergirls’ Poe’s Punishers squad on Sunday, March 27. The family-friendly bout, titled “Et Tu, Brutal?”, will be held at Funky’s Skate Center in Harrisonburg, with the doors opening at 4 p.m. and bout…
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Ed Martin of Akron, Pa., has been named director of the Center for Interfaith Engagement at Eastern Mennonite University. The Center – earlier referred to as “Abraham’s Tent” – provides space for people from a variety of faith traditions to dialogue and collaborate on areas of common understanding. “Ed’s proven track record of relationship-building in…
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Rob Feinstein was there at the beginning of ECW, and he was the founder of Ring of Honor. So when he sees a future for AWE, that’s saying something. “We’ve had two shows, and the crowds speak for themselves. He drew over 1,000 for each night, and that’s pretty much unheard of in professional wrestling,…
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A two-out, five-run rally in the seventh inning broke open a close game and propelled the VMI Keydets to an 8-2 win over the #27 James Madison Dukes in baseball action Tuesday in Harrisonburg, Va. The win was VMI’s first against the Dukes in Harrisonburg since 1976, JMU’s last season as a Division II team….
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A website highlighting options for tourists and hometown tourists is being launched this week by Augusta Free Press LLC. NewDominionTourist.com will be the online complement to the New Dominion Tourist magazine that will hit the streets in Waynesboro, Staunton and Harrisonburg in April. The print and web editions will work together to highlight what’s going…
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The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce announced today that Fine Earth LLC and Dave’s Downtown Taverna have been recognized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as two of the top 75 businesses nationally. Both of these local businesses have significantly contributed to the economic growth in our community, and as a result, are recipients of the…
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James Madison senior forward Denzel Bowles (Virginia Beach, Va./Kempsville) claimed first-team All-CAA honors as the Colonial Athletic Association held its annual awards banquet on Thursday night on the eve of the 2011 CAA Men’s Basketball Championship. Bowles, who was second-team All-CAA a year ago, became the first JMU player to claim first-team All-CAA honors since…
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The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the Daily News-Record, is hosting its Regional Job Fair on Thursday, March 17, noon to 6 p.m. at the Harrisonburg First Church of the Nazarene, 1871 Boyers Road in Harrisonburg. This event is brought to you by the Shenandoah Valley Energy Partnership and the Workforce Investment Board….
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Local cooperatives are offering to help you work your way out of those winter doldrums. The event is called Beat The Blahs. Friendly City Food Co-op, Park View Credit Union and the Little Grill are all cooperatives working together for the community to help beat the winter “blahs” this month. Join the event at the…
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Rocky Simonetti saw a story on WHSV this week about the difficulties being faced by the Staunton Senior Center getting drivers to volunteer to deliver meals through its Meals on Wheels program due to high gas prices. And then he did something about it. “Gas is getting so high – three dollars and five cents…
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