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Starting Nov. 1, restaurant-style room service will be available at Augusta Health. “There’s a perception that hospital food must be bland and boring, but that is all changing here,” said Zeph Putnam, director of nutrition services at Augusta Health. “Our nutrition staff has the privilege and responsibility of providing well-balanced, good-tasting and nutritious meal to…
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The short answer: It would be a long shot. But right now it’s a much longer shot that anybody in the rest of the crowded GOP Senate primary field will be able to knock off frontrunner George Allen. Allen has been running consistently in the upper 50s to mid to upper 60s in the polls…
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Halloween is a real special time for us fans of old-timey monster flicks, horror films, and those beloved 1950’s science ficdtion schlockers. We drag out our dusty old VCR copies of classics like the original “Frankenstein,” “Dracula,” and Lon Chaney, Jr.’s portrayal of “The Wolf Man,” and spend the evening of October 31st salivating over…
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The Humane Society of the United States is calling on Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell to issue an emergency order or otherwise direct the Virginia Department of Natural Resources to adopt regulations on the sale and possession of dangerous wild animals following the escape Tuesday night of 48 wild animals—from bears to wolves to lions—from an…
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The standard civics class lesson is that voting is a primary responsibility of citizenship. We are often reminded at patriotic events that our men and women in uniform protect our rights and freedoms including participating in our government by voting. Yet, with all the importance assigned to voting, voter participation rates in this country are…
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The Virginia athletics department has released the renderings for its indoor football practice facility. The University received the renderings from the Washington, D.C.,-based Bowie Gridley Architects. The facility, also available for use by other Virginia athletics programs, will be located on one of two existing football practice fields behind the McCue Center and University Hall….
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Opening statement: “As I said Saturday, I’m really proud on how our football team responded down at Wake Forest. I think we went in there and beat a really good football team, a well-coached, good football team. That was a great win for us. Boston College is a team we’ve played a bunch of times…
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QUESTION: You’ve already faced teams that have two of your former bosses this season, Coach Laycock and Coach Groh. You have Coach O’Brien coming in this week and former colleague Al Golden later in the year. Have you ever gone through a season like this in terms of similar story lines? Does that change anything…
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After four consecutive weeks of declines, gas prices reversed the trend, edging up yet again. In the last week, the national average for regular grade gasoline rose 5 cents to $3.44 Friday, yet prices are 19 cents below month ago prices. Prices remain 61 cents higher than year ago prices, yet 67 cents below the…
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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced today that Virginia has landed a collaborative project to establish a facility for the testing and certification of large offshore and land-based electricity-producing wind turbines. The project, called Poseidon Atlantic, will be the first such facility in the United States and will help fill a growing need globally for facilities that…
