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Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced today in the Town of Crewe that Trout River Dry Kiln, LLC will open a major hardwood kiln operation in Crewe, located in Nottoway County.
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Due to weather constraints the Virginia Department of Transportation has rescheduled the closure of a portion of Interstate 64 to Wednesday and Thursday from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. for bridge work between mile markers 89 and 93 in the Fishersville area of Augusta County.
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine joined more than 175 Senators and Representatives to write a letter to President Barack Obama calling on him to issue an executive order banning contractors from receiving federal government contracts unless they have a policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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The third-ranked UVa. baseball team will play host to Towson at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Davenport Field. The game remains scheduled to be played in Charlottesville despite the storm earlier this week.
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Augusta Free Press will follow the #1 East Regional seed UVa. basketball team as far as the ‘Hoos go in the 2014 NCAA Tournament – to Raleigh, Madison Square Garden and all the way to AT&T Stadium in Dallas, if that’s where things end up.
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Shak Hill, a candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Virginia, released a video today blasting Virginia’s incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Warner for waging a “War on Girls” and claiming that Warner supports so-called “gender-selective” abortion.
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At 9:01 a.m. Tuesday (March 18, 2014), Virginia State Police were called to the scene of a multi-vehicle crash in the northbound lanes of Interstate 81 near the 210 mile marker in Augusta County. There is one confirmed fatality.
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Coach K, Mike Krzyzewski, seemed to have the upper hand. His star one-and-done forward, Jabari Parker, was eating UVa.’s lunch and making a run at dinner.
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I couldn’t believe that I let myself say it out loud. “OK, I’m willing to concede it, now. It’s over,” I said to my friend and fellow sportswriter, Scott German, who has been covering UVa. sports with me for Augusta Free Press for the past 10 years, and has a history with UVa. media dating back more than 30 years.
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Gregory L. Via – a 1979 Bridgewater College graduate who has been the global director of sports marketing for the Gillette Company since 2007 – will headline the college’s Scott Symposium on Business Ethics March 27.
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