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Fort Defiance High grad Chris Huffman, a pitcher drafted by the San Diego Padres out of JMU in 2014, is the 2025 RCBL Pitcher of the Year.
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Larry Haney, who was born in Charlottesville in 1942, was mostly a backup as a catcher throughout his Major League career.
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Michael Phelps, USA Swimming GOAT, maybe the GOAT U.S. athlete in any sport, isn’t sure he’d want his four young sons to be competitive swimmers.
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I just returned from a reunion at the University of Virginia. Like many alumni, I was looking for the past; what I found was the future.
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Major construction is under way in Harrisonburg, and it may impact traffic in and around James Madison University this weekend.
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The White House, built in 1760 in Page County, will be undergoing an interpretive rehabilitation to highlight the three distinct phases of its 265-year history.
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Dell Curry (Fort Defiance) and Ralph Sampson (Harrisonburg) were both born at old Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg.
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I had a nice, informative – I’d like to think, to both sides – back-and-forth with an AFP reader today, on the costs to attend the University of Virginia, and the impact that UVA Athletics does or doesn’t have on that.
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Recent Turner Ashby High School graduate Sarah Craun has been named the 2025 Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Outstanding Young Agriculturalist.
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The model for UVA Football that worked in the George Welsh years was, win at least seven games every year, every so often, have a chance to do something special.
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