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Virginia Tech head football coach Frank Beamer announced Monday that longtime assistant Billy Hite has been elevated to a new administrative position as assistant to the head coach and senior advisor, and that Shane Beamer will join the Tech coaching staff and assume Hite’s on-field duties as running backs coach. “Over the years, I’ve had…
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Next week, President Obama will release his budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2012. It is my hope that the proposal will reflect the clear message sent by the people on Election Day, that in order to create jobs and grow the economy we must get our fiscal house in order. Unfortunately, the Administration’s initial suggestions…
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A Christian hip-hop artist is one of two things: “a corny guy trying to be gangster, or a gangster not understanding that Jesus doesn’t want to have any part of hip-hop.” Liberty University graduate student Jason Lewis, better known these days as Humble T.I.P. (To Increase Praise), who will headline a concert at the Waynesboro…
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I just attended my third funeral locally since the start of the year – with a fourth coming up on the weekend – somewhat disconcerting in itself. Stop it, people! You loved life with a passion, so did you leave us this way, I think frequently as pay my respects to the families of these…
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Employees at McKee Foods have spent the last 50 years perfecting the recipes for Little Debbie snacks. And employees and the McKee family want to share some of their favorite family recipes with you. To help commemorate the 50th anniversary of the brand in 2010, McKee Foods asked employees company-wide to submit their favorite family…
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Bruised knees, sore muscles, strawberries (a form of floor burn that occurs when your body slides across a gymnasium floor), a sprained ankle for Mariah Taylor last year, and a broken nose for MaryKate Sullivan just last week. The two senior players on the Wilson Memorial High School girls’ basketball team have experienced all the…
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Since his arrival at VCU last April, coach Shaka Smart has spoke over and over again about the importance of leadership and how much of a role it plays in the success of a team. Smart had to be pleased with exactly that trait on Saturday afternoon as the upperclassmen of the Black & Gold…
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Before a school record-tying crowd of 9,840 on Homecoming Saturday, the George Mason men’s basketball team pieced together a pair of big runs to blow by Old Dominion, 62-45, in Colonial Athletic Association action. The win is the ninth-straight for Mason (19-5, 11-2 CAA), the Patriots’ longest-such streak since the 1998-99 season. Old Dominion dropped…
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The minutes are counting down. “I’m pumped. Let’s get it on!” said Marvin Ward, the president of Awesome Wrestling Entertainment, a Virginia-based professional-wrestling promotion with aspirations toward the big time. AWE will mark its launch Saturday night with its first live event at Waynesboro High School. The main event pits former WWE superstar Jimmy Wang…
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One way to keep the growing United States-China global competition from descending into 20th century-style Cold War is to push cultural and economic connections – the likes of which are being forged between Waynesboro and its sister city Wanzhou, China, a bustling industrial city on the Yangtze River with a population of 1.7 million. Adding…
