
Niche markets growing for beef producers
Some Virginia fast-food restaurants are beginning to advertise the fact that they serve grass-fed beef, and such products are popular at farmers’ markets and local butchers around the state.

Some Virginia fast-food restaurants are beginning to advertise the fact that they serve grass-fed beef, and such products are popular at farmers’ markets and local butchers around the state.

The UVa.-William & Mary baseball game, originally scheduled for 3 p.m. Tuesday, has been moved to 4 p.m. Wednesday (Feb. 19) because of field conditions.

The Fishburne Military School postgrad basketball team remains #4 in the NextUp Recruits national PG basketball rankings.

Tea Party Republican Del. Bob Marshall is calling for the impeachment of federal Judge Arena Wright Allen, who ruled this month that Virginia’s ban on same sex marriage is unconstitutional.

Duke offensive tackle Perry Simmons, who was named the winner of the 2013 Jim Tatum Award as ACC’s top scholar-athlete, Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston, the 2013 Heisman Trophy Winner and Boston College tailback Andre Williams, who captured the Doak Walker Award as the nation’s top running back, headline the 67-member 2013 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Football Team, announced Monday by Commissioner John Swofford.

Join Marietta McCarty on Saturday, Feb. 22 for a sort of Philosopher’s Lunch Table featuring South American food to toast the chapter set in Brazil in The Philosopher’s Table.

Earlier today, the Senate Finance Committee and the House Appropriations Committee met to adopt the preliminary budgets of the respective chambers, setting out their plans for the expenditure of nearly $100 billion over the next two years.

The top-ranked Virginia baseball team led from start to finish in a 7-2 road win over UNC Wilmington Sundayafternoon in front of a Brooks Field record crowd of 3,826.

The House of Delegates released a budget plan for Virginia for the next two years that rejects calls from Gov. Terry McAuliffe to expand the state’s Medicaid rolls. A competing Senate plan would create a prvate-insurance Marketplace Virginia.

The Shenandoah Valley Art Center, during the month of March, is featuring, 40 Under 40. In this second annual show, the art center is highlighting the artwork of young and emerging artists.
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