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Helayne Spivak, an acclaimed veteran creative director in the advertising industry, has been named the new director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Brandcenter, the university’s marketing communications and advertising graduate program
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The putsch that led to the forced resignation of UVa. president Teresa Sullivan was done with Gov. Bob McDonnell’s full knowledge and support. That’s the only thing that we can conclude based on the continuing silence from the governor’s office
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Representing companies ranging in size from 20 employees up to corporations such as Anthem, Dominion Resources and Amazon.com, hiring managers and senior executives in attendance all had two essential qualifications in common: they are all hiring in Virginia and are committed to hiring military veterans
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Eastern Mennonite University has announced the hiring of Ben Spotts as head baseball coach. The Royals didn’t have to look too far as Spotts has spent the past 14 years as assistant baseball coach at Bridgewater College, just down the Route 42 corridor. He will become the tenth head baseball coach at EMU
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Thursday’s Waynesboro Generals game was started off with a ceremonial first pitch from J.P. Wegkamp, a man visiting Waynesboro with his wife and daughter all the way from Holland. Just before he threw that opening pitch, the family shared the story behind their visit
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We knew these Waynesboro Generals could win 10-9 games. We didn’t know they could win 3-2 games. Generals pitching held Staunton hitting largely in check as Waynesboro eeked out a 3-2 win at Kate Collins Field Thursday night
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James Madison men’s basketball head coach Matt Brady announced Thursday the addition of longtime Division I head coach Mike Deane to an assistant position on his coaching staff beginning with the 2012-13 season. Deane enters JMU with an extensive resume in 36 seasons of coaching
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Tim Kaine talked up his focus on the economic success of small businesses as a key part of his vision for our economic future in a Thursday radio interview on Hampton Roads’ WHKT. In the interview, Kaine pointed out that “if you are a small business you are still not able to get banks to lend you money”
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Two tragic drowning deaths after a 2011 flash flood are still fresh in some Waynesboro residents’ minds. “That really didn’t have to happen,” said Jeff Fife, the executive director of the Waynesboro Family YMCA, which played host to two local sites taking part in The World’s Largest Swimming Lesson 2012
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Democrats are fond of saying that working-class Southern white voters who vote Republican “vote against their interests” in so doing, before scratching their heads and grumbling about how good things could be if only. The disconnect to reality is obvious – unless you’re a Democrat
