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Waynesboro City Manager Mike Hamp is telling City Council that it needs to raise the city property-tax rate eight cents to balance the budget, and that even in doing so the city won’t be out of the woods in future budget years given the decline in the city’s industrial sector. “The organization’s current, near term,…
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The top-ranked Virginia baseball team completed a three-game series sweep of Virginia Tech with a 10-2 triumph Sunday afternoon at English Field in Blacksburg. In outscoring the Hokies 37-8 in the series, Virginia ran its win streak to nine games and improved to 28-2 this season, including an 11-1 mark in ACC play. UVa is…
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Junior Bryan Conway came through with the go-ahead two-run single in the eighth inning as Richmond stormed back from a four-run deficit late in the game to beat St. Bonaventure, 8-7, Sunday at Pitt Field and sweep the three-game series. The Spiders, who won Saturday’s contest on a walk-off single from senior Billy Barber, scored…
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Kyle Haynes allowed one run in eight innings as Virginia Commonwealth University defeated Old Dominion University 13-1 Saturday afternoon in the second game of a three-game Colonial Athletic Association series at The Diamond. The Rams improved to 4-4 in the CAA, 10-15 overall. The Monarchs dropped to 6-5 in league play, 13-15 overall. Haynes scattered…
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Billy Barber ripped a two-out walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth as Richmond rallied from a run down and beat St. Bonaventure, 4-3, Saturday at Pitt Field. Barber’s single capped a wild afternoon that saw the Spiders take a no-hitter into the eighth inning and finish with a combined one-hitter. Richmond entered the…
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Sophomore second baseman Bradley Shaban (Midlothian, Va./Cosby) hit an RBI double and redshirt senior Alex Foltz (Mathias, W.Va./East Hardy) added a pinch-hit, two-run home run as James Madison used a three-run ninth to top George Mason 11-9 in a Colonial Athletic Association baseball game Saturday afternoon at Spuhler Field. JMU snapped a three-game skid and…
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The top-ranked Virginia baseball team scored 17 runs over a four-inning span to bounce back from an early deficit and trounce Virginia Tech, 18-3, Friday night at a frigid English Field in Blacksburg. The Cavaliers (26-2, 9-1 ACC) banged out 16 hits in their largest offensive output of the season and used strong pitching from…
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First baseman Zack Helgeson hit a pair of home runs and George Mason used a pair of four-run innings to post a 9-5 win over James Madison in the opener of a Colonial Athletic Association baseball series on Friday afternoon at Spuhler Field. GMU picked up just its second win in its last 15 games…
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Graham Sullivan had the game-turning home run, Justin Hess also went deep and four different players drove in two runs apiece, leading a season-best offensive output as the VMI Keydets defeated the Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs, 11-8, in Big South baseball action in Lexington, Va. Friday night. After VMI (14-11-1, 4-3 Big South) had batted around…
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The conventional wisdom to the proposed legislative redistricting that would move Waynesboro into the 20th House District along with Staunton is that Republican Del. Dickie Bell gets Waynesboro in his district. I’m usually not big on conventional wisdom, and I’m certainly not in this case. I’ve written columns over the past couple of years about…
