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Oysters have been harvested in the Chesapeake Bay from time immemorial. In fact, the Bay’s very name is an Algonquian phrase that can be translated “great shellfish bay,” and as early as 1612, English settlers were praising the Chesapeake’s oyster beds.
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The George Allen Senate campaign is on the air Thursday with a new TV ad attacking Tim Kaine on coal. The spot, titled “Pie Chart,” highlights a 2009 speech in which Kaine explained his commitment to make coal a smaller part of our nation’s energy resources.
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Professional sports, like many other pursuits, are getting greener every day. While pro leagues and teams have traditionally been the last to go green, it has all changed in recent years. Maybe it’s the fact that wasting less saves money. Or that going green generates good public relations. Or that it’s just the right thing to do. Whether it’s any or all-of-the-above, professional sports certainly have never been greener.
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If Joelle Hackney had had her way when she was 18, she would have started college 2,400 miles from Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), at Humboldt State in Arcata, California. But by the summer after her 2001 graduation from Stuart’s Draft High School in Augusta County, Va., Humboldt’s steep tuition and other logistical considerations forced her to put that dream on hold.
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Cadence, Inc., a leading provider of medical device outsourcing solutions, announced today that Alan Connor has been selected as the company’s next chief executive oficer.
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An innovative art installation, Concatenation, will be hosted in an unlikely site certain to challenge the traditional art-going experience. Virginia-based Italian artist Daniel Rossi and Dutch artist Dymphna de Wild will create site-specific installations in the transformed barn on historic Cobble Hill Farm in Staunton. The barn will be converted into a one-of-a-kind art experience for one day only, Sunday, October 28th from 3-8 p.m.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced last week that the Commonwealth has selected US 460 Mobility Partners to finance, design and build a new 55-mile stretch of Route 460 in southeastern Virginia.
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Volunteers from Dominion Virginia Power are helping to build a greenhouse for Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center. The greenhouse will help students with disabilities at the Center learn about appropriate work behaviors and will introduce them to a possible career option. The greenhouse is being provided by the WWRC Foundation, but required assembly.
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Life has slowed down for Ellen Schwartz and Roger Bruno, by design. “We don’t have to worry anymore about things like, How will this sound if Barbra Streisand were singing it?” said Schwartz, who with Bruno, her husband, performs in the band Too Human, which will play at the Gateway Theatre in Downtown Waynesboro on Friday, Oct. 26.
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The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service in Virginia has funding available for producers interested in improving the health and productivity of their land in 2013.
We have reached 57 percent of what we need to fund critical operations for 2026. If you have been waiting for the right time to support AFP, this is it.