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First bit of fallout: national rankings The I-AA rankings aren’t out as of this writing. (They’re due out in a couple of hours from our posting.) They’re worth nothing if JMU isn’t #1 after winning in Lane Stadium. Interesting note about the I-A rankings: JMU is in them this week, in the others receiving votes…
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Mickey Matthews spent close to 10 minutes in his hour-long meeting with reporters at JMU Football Media Day in August complaining about the second game on his 2010 schedule, Virginia Tech, before a reporter interjected with a probably obvious question: Are you saying you don’t think you can win the game? Fast forward from there…
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The $4.55 million package of local and state incentives seems a pretty price to pay, but in the current economic environment, the 41 jobs that will come with the expansion of the PGI facility in Waynesboro might just have extra value. “Manufacturing has taken a big hit nationally. People think of jobs going offshore. But…
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The Bridgewater College Equestrian Club is celebrating its 10th anniversary with an event at the Bridgewater College Equestrian Center, 102 Burketown Road, Weyers Cave, on Saturday, Sept. 18, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The celebration will include tours of the grounds, picnic, a concert, and a horse show as well as a silent auction….
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Mark Warner spent his first year in the United States Senate alternatively getting his feet wet and biting his lip. “It was a little bit of earning your bona fides. I tried to do that particularly on the financial-reform bill, really dig in an on issue. And there were probably some times where I bit…
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Haven’t we all at one time or another said something like, “Boy, I’d sure like to trade my life for his or hers!” Sometimes it’s about someone we know personally but often it’s about a “famous” person who we think we know. My assertion is that when we really think about it, we wouldn’t trade…
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Confidence. That’s what America needs to get business moving again. “The challenge we have now is, what can we do to fix the confidence of the business community at large?” U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., told a group of business owners in Staunton on Wednesday. Warner did some talking and a lot of listening as…
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Q. Could you talk about what measures you are taking in preparing for the trip out west? COACH LONDON: I talked to different people that had opportunities to travel from the East Coast to West Coast, particularly when you’re flying, about the issues of hydration, that being important; that when you get there, trying to…
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Ah, wherefore didst the summer goeth? I ask my dazed person. Ich weiss nicht, you may reply, if German is your language of preference. For many, I suspect summer isn’t departing soon enough, given it’s been among the hottest and driest on record. For the most part, I haven’t minded, since, as noted before, I’m…
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It was sometime around 2000 or 2001 when I realized that the way we’ve always done things in Augusta County relative to the provision of fire and rescue service, with the bulk of the work done by volunteers, was no longer sufficient to get the job done. I had invited myself out on a Saturday…
