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Gov. Bob McDonnell today ceremonially signed two pieces of legislation that promote the use of alternative fuel vehicles in the Commonwealth. He also signed a new executive order setting out the state alternative fuel plan required by House Bill 2282. The governor was joined by delegates Danny Marshall (R-Danville) and David Bulova (D-Fairfax); Secretary of…
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Every member of the Red Sox lineup connected for at least one hit as Salem continued its second-half resurgence, demolishing Winston-Salem 9-4 on Monday night to finish off the sweep of the Dash. Mark Wagner, in his second game since returning off the disabled list with a shoulder injury, went 3-3 with three RBI, falling…
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Online donations to the Voluntary Solar Resource Development Fund created by the 2011 Virginia General Assembly are now being accepted, the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME) announced today. The Fund is intended to provide capital for a revolving loan program to be created and administered by DMME for the purpose of financing…
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This past week the Department of Labor released a very disappointing jobs report for the month of June. Our national unemployment rate rose to an unacceptable 9.2 percent and only 18,000 jobs were created. The report makes it abundantly clear that the economic uncertainty caused by out of control government spending, excessive regulation, and the…
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The Red Sox scored multiple runs in three straight innings en route to an 8-1 lead, hanging on for an 8-4 victory to move above the .500 mark for the first time in the second half. Following the 0-5 start, Salem has prevailed in nine of the last 12 games, raising the record to 9-8,…
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Sammy Solis shut down the Lynchburg Hillcats for seven innings and got just enough run support as the Potomac Nationals leveled the series with a 2-0 win at City Stadium on Sunday night. It was Solis’s second win in as many starts with Potomac and set up a rubber match in the series finale Monday….
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Six runs in the first two innings and a steady start from Zeke Spruill were too much for the Potomac Nationals to overcome on Saturday in Lynchburg and they dropped the opener to the Hillcats 8-3. Spruill won his third start and snapped a four-game Lynchburg losing streak in a game that saw the ‘Cats…
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If you build it, they might come. If you don’t, they can’t. That could be one way to sum up the rationale behind the anticipated move by Waynesboro City Council to buy approximately 170 acres of land on the southeast edge of the city for future development as an industrial park. “We’ve not hidden from…
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American Meat, a feature documentary about a grassroots revolution in sustainable farming starring Virginia’s own Joel Salatin and his Polyface Farms, will have its world premiere July 9 at Waynesboro’s Zeus Theater and July 10 at Staunton’s Visulite Theater. Reported and directed by filmmaker Graham Meriwether, the movie explains how America arrived at its current…
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It is so good to be back to writing articles. Nothing had happened to me to write about until April of this year. I had not been feeling well for about three months leading to April 2011. My blood pressure was out of control in elevation and also in sudden drops. It was necessary for me…
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