
Press Conference: Frank Beamer
Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer talks with the news media in advance of the Hokies’ (3-3, 1-1 ACC) game at home against Duke on Saturday.

Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer talks with the news media in advance of the Hokies’ (3-3, 1-1 ACC) game at home against Duke on Saturday.

UVa. coach Mike London talks with the news media about his team’s four-game losing streak and more heading into a home game this weekend against ACC rival Maryland.

Mark Strauss is not only a Holocaust survivor. He is also an artist and author. His presentation at Waynesboro Public Library on Thursday, October 11 will connect these two avocations to his poignant story of survival and hope as a child in Nazi-occupied Poland. The evening’s presentation, in cooperation with the Foundation for Holocaust Education Projects, starts at 6 p.m. with a segment for children and will be followed by one for adults at 7:30 p.m.

Magnus Richards has made it official, confirming his commitment to Binghamton. “I felt like it was a good opportunity for me and for the Binghamton program. They were really interested in me. The head coach recruited me from the first time he saw me,” said Richards, a 6’6″, 205-pound forward from Silver Spring, Md.

So, what is Mojo Saturday Night, and what’s it like to be the host? Mojo Saturday Night is the region’s only monthly blues revue in a “listening room” setting. It takes place at The Gateway on the third Saturday of every month. It is a great show with local, regional and national blues artists ranging from solo acoustic to six- or seven-piece bands.

Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer talks with the media in advance of the Hokies’ ACC road opener at North Carolina this weekend.

Prices at the pump continue to retreat from an atypical September rally of daily gas price records, where prices peaked at $3.87 per gallon nationally. Despite these record highs, prices have begun to decrease following the end to the summer driving season, the resolution of regional supply and distribution issues, and the end of summer-blend gasoline specifications for much of the country on September 15.

UVa. football coach Mike London takes questions on who his starting quarterback will be next week at Duke and more in his weekly press conference.

Here’s where credit needs to be given to Mitt Romney and his brain trust. And seriously, they’ll take what they can get however they get it right now, considering how badly things have been going of late. “I think we have a system of free press. People are able to provide their own perspective based upon their own beliefs. I think there are some people who are more in my camp, there’s a lot of people who are more in his camp, and I don’t worry about that.” That was how the GOP presidential nominee answered Jan Crawford of CBS News when asked if he thought the “mainstream media” was “in the tank” for the president.

No other genre of music touches the soul like the music, rhythm, sound and beat of jazz and blues which got its start in the early 20th century in the United States. Jazz music has structure, discipline and organization. The music has fundamentals and a foundation that cannot be made up. To play jazz, most…
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