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Redevelopment team members for the Mill at South River in Waynesboro announced today that the project has successfully completed a $5.5 million voluntary remediation and site preparation phase of the property redevelopment. It is the largest known voluntary Brownfield investment by an individual in Virginia and ranks in the top 7 percent in size of…
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Sometimes the most important lessons learned at school don’t come from a classroom. They come from how a school reacts to ugly incidents of bias and prejudice. When a principal learns that nasty slurs are being used in the school or that students are being bullied because of their race or ethnicity, it can be…
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The James Madison University football team will have five home games along with a road game at Football Bowl Subdivision school North Carolina on its 2011 schedule, announced today. Time for the home games will be announced in the coming weeks. Coming off seven straight winning seasons, JMU will open the season on the road…
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DuPont Community Credit Union continued to demonstrate the availability of credit by once again growing total loans for the fourth quarter for 2010 compared to the same period for 2009. The Waynesboro-headquartered credit union, which operates nine branches in the Central Shenandoah Valley region, reported that $41.6 million in loans were funded during the fourth…
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Bridgewater native and James Madison University graduate student Julia Stutzman will be heading to the Galapagos Islands Feb. 7 to research the plant genus Cordia. Stutzman, who will receive her master’s degree in biology this spring, is trying to determine how many species of Cordia grow in the archipelago, located about 600 miles west of…
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I sat at my computer and in a few seconds came up with a title for this treatise without having the slightest idea what would follow (and in reading this, you’ll probably think that’s still the case). I thought such an exercise would help prod my mental neurons which seem in a state of general…
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When the Virginia Cavaliers shoot the basketball well, they often find themselves in competitive games. When they don’t, then things can turn ugly. Very ugly. The latter being the case here Thursday evening as the visiting Maryland Terrapins capitalized on a horrendous shooting performance by Virginia to claim a 66-42 Atlantic Coast Conference win here…
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A pair of House Republicans are pushing for extended coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders for children ages 2 to 6 years old affected by it. Dels. Tag Greason, R-Loudoun, and Tim Hugo, R-Fairfax, are patroning bills as part of the package. Greason’s HB 2467 would extend private-sector insurance coverage for…
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U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., today introduced the “STOP the OverPrinting Act” (S. 210), the Senate version of House legislation requiring the Government Printing Office to post legislative bills and resolutions online instead of automatically printing and distributing them to each congressional office. The senators estimate that the legislation should…
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I often describe the General Assembly session as being like a roller coaster ride. It starts off slowly but accelerates in speed as the bottom seems to drop out. There are many ups and downs along the way. The session is scheduled to adjourn February 26. In the meantime about 3,000 bills and resolutions will…
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