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Although a child of the ’70s, my parents did not subject me to the music revolution of the ’60s. God love them, but hippies they are not. Rather than Janis Joplin, I listened to Karen Carpenter. In lieu of The Beatles, I listened to the Statler Brothers
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The renowned music group The Blind Boys of Alabama will open the Shenandoah Valley Music Festival’s 2012 concert season with a performance on Friday, July 20, at 8 p.m
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Longtime Virginia orthopedic surgeon Dr. Frank C. McCue III passed away Sunday. He was 82 years old. McCue headed up the sports medicine program for the University of Virginia athletic department for more than 40 years
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The little dustup that we saw back during the City Council campaign involving Mike Harris and, well, pretty much the rest of the City Council, that’s all over and done with, right? Eh, maybe, maybe not
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Messiah on the Frigidaire by playwright John Culbertson will be presented by Valley Playhouse on Aug. 2-5 and Aug. 9-12 at the Court Square Theater
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After dominating out of the gate, Matt Barnes could not make it through the fourth inning on Tuesday night. Five straight Pelicans reached base with two outs in the last of the fourth, leading to four runs, and Myrtle Beach eased past Salem 10-3 to complete the three game sweep of the Red Sox at TicketReturn.Com Field
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The Shenandoah Valley Art Center, during the month of July, is exhibiting the works of artist, Lois Schlachter, versatile painter for the past forty years. This Spring Mount, Pa., artist is as comfortable honing her skills with realism in oils as with abstracts painted in acrylics. The exhibit features a series of Abstract Expressionist-style acrylic paintings, rich in color and dynamic in composition
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Kyle Hendricks tossed eight strong innings for Myrtle Beach, outdueling Keith Couch in the Pelicans’ slim 4-3 victory over the Red Sox on Monday evening at TicketReturn.Com Field
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For the second time in as many days and the third time in the last week, the Salem Sox experienced their worst loss of the season. After falling 8-0 to Winston-Salem on Monday and losing 13-4 to Potomac on Saturday, the scuffling Sox were trounced 16-3 by Myrtle Beach on Sunday evening at TicketReturn.Com Field
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Gov. Bob McDonnell has signed Executive Directive No. 4 establishing a workgroup to develop a plan for implementing a program to screen babies born in Virginia for a life-threatening condition called critical congenital heart disease (CCHD). In Virginia, almost 4 in 1,000 newborns are diagnosed each year with one of the defects causing CCHD
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