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Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance announced this week that The Steel Wheels as this year’s Grand Marshals of the Valley Fourth Parade. The “Get Outdoors” themed parade takes place Thursday, July 4, leaving from the Rockingham County Administration Building at 6pm and marching south to the City Municipal Building.
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Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling today announced the Virginia Mainstream Project’s support of candidates in several contested Republican primaries this month. Bolling recently created the VMP in part to focus on electing mainstream, conservative Republicans to public office.
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At an event at Robious Elementary School in Midlothian, Gov. Bob McDonnell today signed 12 pieces of legislation designed to make Virginia’s schools and campuses safer.
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Roddy Barnes loves WTA’s Gateway. He finds it one of the best listening rooms in Virginia. And he wants to come back!
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Kenny Towns (So., Burke, Va.) hit a three-run walkoff home run with one out in the 12th inning to lift the fifth-ranked Virginia baseball team to a 7-4 victory over No. 7 Florida State Saturday in the 2013 ACC Baseball Championship at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, N.C.
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Did you also know that almost every state in the nation has some form of a “Move Over” law?* Move Over laws protect those working on and along our roadways.
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Indeed we are embroiled in what many consider the worst drought in the U.S. since the “Dust Bowl” days of the 1930s that rendered some 50 million acres of farmland barely usable.
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Scott Silverstein (R-Sr., Olney, Md.) fired 8 2/3 innings of two-run baseball to lift the fifth-ranked Virginia baseball team to an 8-2 triumph over Georgia Tech Thursday in the 2013 ACC Baseball Championship at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, N.C.
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The No. 7 Virginia baseball team scored four runs in the 11th inning and then held off a furious North Carolina rally in the bottom of the inning to claim a wild 8-7 victory over the second-ranked Tar Heels Saturday afternoon in front of a sellout crowd of 4,100 at Boshamer Stadium in Chapel Hill. Virginia (45-9, 22-8 ACC) won the series, two games to one, and captured eight of its 10 ACC series this year.
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Unlikely hero Ryan Battaglia smacked a game-winning two-run single in the bottom of the ninth, capping Carolina’s improbable three-run rally that gave the Mudcats their first win at Five County Stadium in their last ten tries. Tyler Naquin and Francisco Lindor, both of whom contributed three-hit performances, crossed the plate to transform a 4-3 deficit to the Salem Red Sox into a 5-4 victory celebration.
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