Richmond announces 17-member signing class for 2011

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Richmond football head coach Latrell Scott announced Wednesday the signing of 17 student-athletes, who have submitted their intent to attend the University of Richmond and play for the Spiders next season. The class features one local standout, nine linemen, and 10 from the Commonwealth of Virginia. This marks the first class entirely recruited by Coach…

UVa. adds class of 26

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The Virginia football program signed 24 players to a National Letters of Intent (NLI) for the 2011-12 academic school year head coach Mike London announced. Two additional recruits enrolled at UVa in January, topping the class off at 26. Highlighting the nationally ranked class are five ESPNU Top 150 prospects, 17 signees from the state…

Mill at South River completes $5.5 million prep work

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Redevelopment team members for the Mill at South River in Waynesboro announced today that the project has successfully completed a $5.5 million voluntary remediation and site preparation phase of the property redevelopment. It is the largest known voluntary Brownfield investment by an individual in Virginia and ranks in the top 7 percent in size of…

JMU football: Dukes open with UNC

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The James Madison University football team will have five home games along with a road game at Football Bowl Subdivision school North Carolina on its 2011 schedule, announced today. Time for the home games will be announced in the coming weeks. Coming off seven straight winning seasons, JMU will open the season on the road…

Help JMU knockout a world record

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Fans attending James Madison’s home men’s basketball game on Wednesday night against William and Mary at 7 p.m. will have the opportunity to be part of a Guinness World Record. JMU’s Athletics Marketing staff plans to host the world’s largest game of basketball knockout. Following the game all fans of any age in attendance will…

UNC-Asheville continues mastery of Keydets

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A season-high crowd of 3,157 fans was on hand at Cameron Hall, but UNC Asheville continued to dominate in Lexington and walked away with a 100-87 victory over the VMI Keydets Saturday afternoon. With the win, UNC Asheville won its fourth straight game at Cameron Hall and salvaged a split in the regular season series….

Mason continues on roll

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For the third straight game the George Mason men’s basketball team pieced together a double-digit run spanning both halves, and it once again led to victory as the Patriots defeated William & Mary, 85-69, in Colonial Athletic Association action Saturday afternoon at Kaplan Arena. The win was the seventh straight for Mason (17-5, 9-2 CAA),…

Scott German: Terps sizzle, Cavs fizzle

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When the Virginia Cavaliers shoot the basketball well, they often find themselves in competitive games. When they don’t, then things can turn ugly. Very ugly. The latter being the case here Thursday evening as the visiting Maryland Terrapins capitalized on a horrendous shooting performance by Virginia to claim a 66-42 Atlantic Coast Conference win here…

Local JMU students recognized

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Below are lists of students from Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro who graduated, made president’s list or dean’s list during the fall 2010 semester at James Madison University. To qualify for the president’s list, a student must carry a semester course load of 12 graded credit hours or more and earn a GPA of 3.900…

Fund targets business sectors for growth

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The Staunton Creative Community Fund, a provider of loans and assistance to empower small businesses, is launching a new outreach campaign targeting emerging businesses with the potential to spawn new industries in the Shenandoah Valley and beyond. With Virginia’s unemployment rate in November remaining at nearly 7 percent for the third consecutive month with traditional…