
Virginia basketball coach Tony Bennett named Associated Press coach of the year
Virginia basketball coach Tony Bennett was named the Associated Press Men’s College Basketball Coach of the Year.

Virginia basketball coach Tony Bennett was named the Associated Press Men’s College Basketball Coach of the Year.

After a national search that attracted a wide array of candidates from across the country, Tim Miller has been named the next vice president for student affairs at James Madison University. It will be a homecoming of sorts for Miller, who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from JMU.

Last spring, more than 200 people came to the Booker T Washington Community Center in Staunton to break bread together and converse across differences. Building Bridges for the Greater Good will help these conversations continue at another Breaking Bread event on Saturday, April 7.

You probably hear a lot about the disagreements in Washington, and that’s not surprising. Having two major parties that disagree on some bedrock principles, such as the role of government, means a lot of give and take.

Attorney General Mark Herring and attorneys general from 36 other states and territories sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding answers about the company’s business practices and privacy protections.

Over a million students and allies walked out of classes in the U.S., from Maine to Hawaii, and elsewhere in the world on March 14. Ten days later, March 24, hundreds of thousands of defiant marchers flooded the streets in Washington, D.C., and at more than 800 places on every continent except Antarctica. What might they do next?

The No. 9 Virginia women’s lacrosse team topped No. 20 Duke 12-8 on a soggy Saturday afternoon at Koskinen Stadium in Durham, N.C.

Members of the House Democratic Caucus took part in the March For Our Lives events across Virginia. Americans across the nation marched in support of survivors of gun violence and demanded action from legislators.

Rod Smith, Washington and Lee University’s writer in residence and editor of the online literary magazine Shenandoah, will present his annual and final reading, before his retirement from W&L in June, on April 3 in Leyburn Library Book Nook at 4:45 p.m.

The Chesapeake Conservancy is thanking Congress for supporting continued success in restoring and conserving the Chesapeake Bay.
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