
Lynchburg VDOT District Traffic Alert: April 6-10
Highway work in the Lynchburg VDOT District requiring road/lane./structure closures is scheduled, weather permitting.

Highway work in the Lynchburg VDOT District requiring road/lane./structure closures is scheduled, weather permitting.

The Virginia baseball team’s five-game win streak came to a halt Wednesday with a 7-6 defeat to VMI at Davenport Field. The No. 12 Cavaliers (19-9) walked 10 batters and hit two more, as VMI came to Charlottesville and won for the second straight season.

The Short Hills Fire in Botetourt County continues to be the most significant and difficult to suppress wildfire currently burning in Virginia.

James Madison University, in collaboration with the Sentara RMH Stroke Program and Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater, will provide a series of movement workshops to stroke survivors and their partners in early April.

Sophomore designated hitter Brett Johnson hit a go-ahead, three-run home run in the top of the seventh inning, but the James Madison baseball team could not hold off a Longwood rally, falling to the Lancers, 10-9, in non-conference action on Tuesday evening.

The annual federal budget debate typically doesn’t excite many folks outside the Washington beltway. And with good reason – the Republican budget process is intended to lull the public to sleep by staying short on details and long on damaging provisions that will hurt low-income and middle-class families.

Events on the schedule at the Waynesboro Public Library in April 2015.

The James Madison softball team continued its rise on the national stage this week as the Dukes were ranked in both major softball polls for the first time in program history, coming in at No. 24 in the USA Today/National Fast Pitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division I Top 25 Poll and No. 25 in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 Poll on Tuesday.

UVA basketball started the 2014-2015 season with an interesting set of expectations – as a preseason Top 10 team nationally that was also picked fourth in the preseason poll of writers who cover the ACC.

The proliferation of national security challenges facing our country, from aggressive regional powers to transnational terrorists, should remind us of an essential constitutional responsibility that too many in Washington have recently chosen to overlook: providing for the common defense.
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