Calling all UVa. football fans

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   Virginia head football coach Mike London announced Monday he has purchased 100 season tickets in section 117 at Scott Stadium. Coach London will give away these season tickets for free to fans as prizes awarded through an essay contest. The winners will be a part of Mike London’s Fanatic…

Frank Knapp Jr.: Restoring balance between Wall Street and Main Street

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Column by Frank Knapp Jr. Submit guest columns: [email protected]   The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, the U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce and small business organizations and owners across this country want Wall Street Reform. But you wouldn’t know that from the attention the media gives to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which…

Conservation efforts in Valley get big boost

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   The Verona-based Shenandoah Resource Conservation and Development Council has received a three-year partnership agreement worth $720,000 annually to help farmers with conservation practices. The funds were provided through the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative. Shenandoah RC&D Chairman John Eckman said funds “present a real opportunity…

Sanford D. Horn: PSA should put Labor Secretary out of work

Column by Sanford D. Horn Submit guest columns: [email protected]   If ever there was proof of this administration’s duplicitous behavior toward those to whom they are most answerable, the American citizen, it is in the recent Public Service Announcement made by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. “You work hard, and you have the right to be…

Former VMI standout making waves in CFL

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   Former VMI back Tim Maypray ’10 was featured on Friday’s ESPN SportsCenter Top 10 plays for his action in Thursday night’s Montreal Alouettes-Saskatchewan Roughriders game. Maypray returned a missed field goal 125 yards for a Montreal touchdown during the second half of the CFL season opener, won by Saskatchewan…

Jim Bishop: Gettin’ in beachtime, makin’ waves, mullin’ the future

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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected]   “Sittin’ on the dock of the bay, Watching the tide roll away . . .” – Otis Redding (1968) VIRGINIA BEACH – What could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning? How about poolside in Virginia Beach on a sunny, warm afternoon, alternately…

Webb marks one year of Post-9/11 GI Bill

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va. marked on Wednesday the one-year anniversary of the implementation of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, which has offered more than a quarter of a million veterans and their families the opportunity to attend college or training programs. After introducing the bill on his first day in…