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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] Wonder if I can write anything substantive while riding shotgun in our 2001 Alero on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on a bitterly cold Sunday morning while returning to Harrisonburg? Stay tuned and see . . . I was hoping to start a column draft during three glorious…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Slow down. That’s what the Augusta County Board of Supervisors has decided to do with its work to get a new fire and rescue station in the Riverheads area going. “We just want to make sure that we’ve got the right place, that there are no other places out…
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Evans leads Dukes with 26 points Staff Report JMU sports: www.jmusports.com Junior guard Dawn Evans (Clarksville, Tenn./Northeast) scored 26 points to lead three Dukes in double figures as James Madison (1-1, 11-2) took down Georgia State (1-1, 10-3) 68-60 in Colonial Athletic Association women’s basketball Thursday evening at the JMU Convocation Center. Freshman guard Tarik…
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Staff Report EMU sports: www.emu.edu For the first time in school history, the Eastern Mennonite men’s basketball team has cracked the top 25 of a national poll. The Runnin’ Royals have already set the mark for best start in school history, and this week took the No. 24 spot in the D3hoops.com national ranking….
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Groups urge Kaine to restore voting rights for ex-felons Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] Ten Virginia civil-rights and faith-based groups have joined together to ask Gov. Tim Kaine to issue an executive order that would restore voting rights to most or all of Virginia’s 300,000 individuals who are being denied the right to vote because…
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Staff Report UVa. sports: www.virginiasports.com Virginia women’s basketball senior guard Monica Wright (Woodbridge, Va.) earned the second ACC Player of the Week honor of the 2009-10 season Monday, sharing the accolade with Miami’s Shenise Johnson. Wright averaged 23.7 points, 7.3 rebounds and 6.3 steals per game in a 3-0 week for the Cavaliers. The…
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Second-half run pushes Flames to win Staff Report VMI sports: www.vmikeydets.com An 11-0 run early in the second half, sparked by three straight Jeremy Anderson three-pointers, gave the visiting Liberty Flames a lead they would not relinquish, en route to a 110-102 win over VMI Saturday afternoon in a Big South contest played at Cameron…
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Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: [email protected] I can’t wait for 2010! I can’t wait to see how 2009 will turn out. Yep, we are going into overtime. Too much is still up in the hot air of politics to be settled in twelve short months. Sure, a few minor clashes have been…
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Fifth District GOP candidate builds support toward run for party nod Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Fifth District is a living laboratory to Fluvanna County biology teacher Feda Morton, a veteran Republican Party activist seeking the GOP nomination to run for Congress in the Fifth. All Morton has to do over the course of…
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No. 25 Dukes will play Western Michigan in JMU Invitational Staff Report JMU sports: www.jmusports.com No. 25 James Madison (9-1) defeated Lafayette (2-10) 86-54 and Western Michigan (5-7) downed North Carolina Asheville (3-8) 60-53 in the opening round of the JMU Invitational Women’s Basketball Tournament Tuesday evening at the JMU Convocation Center. JMU and Western…
