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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] John Hicks (So., Sandy Hook, Va.) singled to score Dan Grovatt (Jr., Tabernacle, N.J.) to break an eighth-inning tie and lift the second-ranked Virginia baseball team to a 4-2 win over No. 20 Virginia Tech Friday evening in front of packed house of 4,219 fans at Davenport Field.
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Column by Martha Richards Submit guest columns: [email protected] When facing tough times, most Americans turn to the arts. We crank up our favorite songs on the radio, go to a movie, or settle in for an evening of “Dancing with the Stars.” And yet as our country struggles through one of its worst economic…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov. Bob McDonnell has declared April to be Confederate History Month, but if you’ve read a newspaper or turned on the TV news anytime in the past few days, you knew that already. You also know that plenty of people are plenty mad that he did this, that plenty…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Kai Degner may be hitting one of those windows of opportunity that the universe seems to offer up every few hundred million years or so. “We think this is the best shot in years to win the seat,” said Degner, the Harrisonburg mayor and presumptive Democratic Party nominee in…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The Augusta County Spring Cleanup is being held Saturday, April 10, through Saturday April 17. The Augusta County Landfill will be open from 8 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Monday through Saturday to accept waste. In addition, tires (limit of 12) may be brought to the Landfill with no tipping…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Unfortunately, the column is lost to history, since ACCNation.com is lost to history. (OK, somebody is using the name, and yeah, I’m kinda bothered by that, since I was the one who came up with the name, on the drive back from the Maryland-UVa. football game in 2004, when…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The firestorm of controversy that resulted from Gov. Bob McDonnell’s proclamation of Confederate History Month was expected. A statement from McDonnell released this evening in which the governor admits to “a mistake” for not including any mention of slavery in the proclamation was not expected.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The 26th District Republican Committee will meet on April 13 to discuss possible changes to the nomination process that will be used to determine a candidate in the upcoming special House of Delegates election in the district encompassing the City of Harrisonburg and a swath of Rockingham County.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Sophomores Chris Bocklet and Steele Stanwick each matched career highs with four goals to lead the No. 1 Virginia Cavaliers (10-0, 1-0 ACC) over the No. 4 Maryland Terrapins (6-2, 1-2) on Saturday night, 11-10, in front of 7,639 fans at Byrd Stadium.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Matt Bergquist hit a walkoff single in the 11th inning to lift NC State to a 6-5 win over the No. 1-ranked Virginia baseball team Friday evening at Doak Field at Dail Park in Raleigh, N.C. Virginia had two-run leads in the eighth and ninth innings but in each…
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