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How would you like to be Bob McDonnell right about now? It wasn’t that long ago when the pundits had you pegged as the GOP vice-presidential nominee, and that was before you formally endorsed Mitt Romney, right before the critical South Carolina primary. The endorsement of a Southern Republican governor before a key Southern primary…
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The Virginia baseball team notched an 8-5 victory over Marist Tuesday evening at Davenport Field. Chris Taylor (Jr., Virginia Beach, Va.) and Keith Werman (Sr., Vienna, Va.) each posted three hits for the Cavaliers (10-5-1). The teams will play again at 5 p.m. Wednesday at Davenport Field. Virginia starting pitcher Branden Kline (Jr., Frederick, Md.)…
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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Tuesday that agricultural exports from Virginia reached an all-time high level in 2011, surpassing the previous record set in 2009. The governor made the announcement during his keynote remarks at the Governor’s Conference on Agricultural Trade in Richmond. The Commonwealth exported a record $2.35 billion in agricultural products in 2011, a…
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The Republican mantra on jobs is that recent growth in job numbers at the federal level isn’t enough and that President Obama hasn’t been doing enough. At the state level in Virginia, modest gains in the jobs sector is reason for celebration for Republicans hoping to gain political advantage. “Needless to say, I am delighted…
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Nate Irving (Fr., Yonkers, N.Y.) hit a walk-off infield single with two outs in the ninth inning to cap a rally from three runs down as the Virginia baseball team topped Virginia Tech, 6-5, Sunday at Davenport Field. UVa trailed 5-2 in the eighth inning before scoring two runs in each of the final two…
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In a back-and-forth contest, UNCW pushed in front with two runs in the fifth, padded the lead with two more in the seventh and held on in the ninth inning to defeat James Madison 8-7 in a Colonial Athletic Association baseball game Saturday afternoon at Brooks Field. UNCW improved to 5-9 overall and 2-0 in…
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Redshirt-junior attacker Casey Ancarrow (Jarrettsville, Md./John Carroll) picked up five goals for the Dukes, surpassing 100 goals in her career but the 13th-ranked James Madison women’s lacrosse team fell to Richmond 13-12 on Saturday. With the loss the Dukes fell to 3-3 on the season while the Spiders improved to 3-3. With the game tied…
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Mount St. Mary’s used three hits and a pair of James Madison errors to plate three runs in the 11th inning and pull out a 9-6 victory in a non-conference baseball game Wednesday afternoon at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park. The Mount improved to 2-9 with the win while JMU dropped to 5-7-1.
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Staunton/Augusta/Waynesboro’s economy ranks among the country’s strongest micropolitan areas, reports the March issue of Site Selection Magazine. Staunton/Augusta/Waynesboro is tied at #13 in the national ranking and is top-ranked for Virginia. The only other Virginia locality to make the list, Martinsville, comes in at #32. The US Census Bureau defines a micropolitan region as an…
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State Fair of Virginia Inc., the nonprofit organization that produces the State Fair of Virginia, converted its Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in Richmond District Court on March 7. As a result, SFVA will no longer produce the fair, the Strawberry Hill Races and the Meadow Highland Games & Celtic…
