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William Perry Elementary School is hosting a charity fundraiser basketball game featuring the Harlem Wizards on Monday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. at the Waynesboro High School gym. The Wizards will take on The Masters of Disaster, a team of WPES all-stars.
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All those who have cried, “We miss The Boogie Kings,” will be happy to hear that the popular group will be the featured musicians for the Friday, Sept. 18 “River City Radio Hour.” Led by Richard Adams, The Boogie Kings includes the keyboard wonder William Hayes with J.T. Fauber on percussion. The Boogie Kings’ groupies…
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Sixteenth-ranked TCU manhandled Virginia 30-14 in college-football action Saturday. The Horned Frogs (1-0) led 14-0 at the half and 30-0 midway through the fourth quarter before UVa. quarterback Jameel Sewell connected with Javaris Brown on a 56-yard TD pass with 4:14 to go and later hooked up with Tim Smith on a 26-yard scoring pass to…
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Story by Chris Graham Three years of audit reports have suggested that her office is in disarray – with bank deposits made late, cash and checks left sitting in envelopes on desks and counters unsecured, wire transfers being handled improperly, tax records making it hard to tell what had been collected and what hadn’t been….
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Looks like we might be stuck with Al Groh for the duration. The chatter I’m hearing from sources around the UVa. athletics department is that it’s almost a 100 percent certainty that Groh will finish the 2009 season as the Virginia football coach.
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The City of Staunton in partnership with the Staunton Creative Community Fund announced today the award of a $200,000 state grant to support a new business loan program. As small and start-up businesses struggle to access loans in today’s economy, the program will fund start-up and expansion costs for entrepreneurs who have traditionally had limited…
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And it wasn’t even that close, folks. AFP editor Chris Graham breaks down the William & Mary win over Virginia in the season opener for both teams with comments from UVa. coach Al Groh and senior co-captain Denzell Burrell on what the loss means for the floundering University of Virginia program. How much longer does…
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Jimmye Laycock was tipping his hand. His Tribe had just recovered a Vic Hall fumble at the Virginia 9. There’s 8:20 left in the third quarter, an eternity in a college-football game. William & Mary is down 14-13. A touchdown and two-point conversion gives them a seven-point lead.
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A new University of Virginia policy will take effect for the 2009 football season, prohibiting smoking in Scott Stadium. Smoking is prohibited in all UVa facilities, including in all athletics facilities. There is a designated smoking area outside the southwest gate at the stadium, which is required to be 25 feet from the gate. Fans…
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Still no word on who Virginia will be starting at quarterback Saturday in the season opener at home against William & Mary. But we do now know that Vic Hall will be returning punts. “That’s one thing we know for sure, that we will have Vic back there returning,” UVa. coach Al Groh told reporters…
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