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– Economy: Gas prices trending back downward, Sunday, 12:40 p.m. – Sports: Nevada knocks off VCU in BracketBusters, Sunday, 12:40 p.m. – Sports: JMU baseball drops pair in Myrtle Beach, Sunday, 12:40 p.m. – Sports: JMU softball improves to 9-1, Sunday, 12:40 p.m. – Sports: W&L falls to EMU in men’s basketball, Sunday, 12:40 p.m….

Retired General

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He didn’t have to say much more. “My priority is my wife,” Jim Critzer told me when I asked him about his decision to sell the Waynesboro Generals, which he had almost singlehandedly saved from oblivion a decade ago, back when it looked like the Valley League original might be moved out of town.

Nesselrodt heads list of Valley League honorees

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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Lawrence Nesselrodt could get used to this. The Waynesboro coach was named the Valley League Coach of the Year for the third straight season after leading the Generals to a 30-14 regular-season mark, the Southern Division title and a second-round appearance in the 2008 Valley League playoffs.

Sizemore among VBL honorees

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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro second baseman Brandon Sizemore had another solid week as the Generals completed their run at the Valley League Southern Division crown. Sizemore, named one of the league’s players of the week for the final week of the regular season, hit .444 with two homers and 10 RBI. The College…

No cakewalk for us

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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] At least one AFP reader doesn’t agree with me that it’s all that bad that the power players in a political group that backed the successful candidates in our recent elections don’t live in Waynesboro. “If they have business interests in the city, I think…