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Augusta Free Press will produce a 30-minute TV special for WVPT-Virginia’s Public Television highlighting the winners of the 2011 Greater Augusta Chamber of Commerce Annual Awards. AFP produced videos honoring the winners for the March 20 Chamber Annual Dinner. Awards were given to Chamber membersn for Industry of the Year, Small Business of the Year,…
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Augusta Free Press vice president Crystal Graham will square off with News Virginian editor/general manager Jonathan Hunley in a cook-off in the 13th annual Taste of the Town event on Tuesday, March 27. The event is sponsored by Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. Graham will pit her Moroccan White Bean Turkey Chili against Hunley’s Butternut Squash…
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Williamsport, Md.,-based author Austin Gisriel, whose 2010 book, Safe At Home: A Season in the Valley, was published by Augusta Free Press, was profiled in March 24 feature article in the Northern Virginia Daily. In the article, Gisriel said working with Chris and Crystal Graham, owners of Augusta Free Press, was a great experience. “They…
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The Virginia baseball finished off a three-game series sweep of Clemson Sunday afternoon with a 5-3 victory over the Tigers at Davenport Field. Virginia (15-8-1, 5-4 ACC) swept the Tigers for the second-consecutive year and now has won seven straight against Clemson. Virginia starting pitcher Artie Lewicki (So., Wyckoff, N.J.) worked a career-high 6.0 innings…
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James Madison outscored Virginia 41-26 in the second half en route to a 68-59 win in National Women’s Invitation Tournament quarterfinal-round basketball action Sunday afternoon at the JMU Convocation Center. JMU, 28-7, advances to a 7 p.m. home March 28 semifinal game against Syracuse, a 74-73 overtime winner over Toledo on Saturday. Virginia completed its…
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James Madison rallied from an early five-run deficit and stole a school-record 11 bases to post a 15-13 win at Georgia State in a Colonial Athletic Association baseball game Sunday afternoon at the GSU Baseball Complex. JMU improved to 6-17-1 and snapped its school-record 12-game losing streak and its eight-game skid in the CAA, also…
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Branden Kline (Jr., Frederick, Md.) fired a complete-game, two-hit gem to lead the Virginia baseball team to a 5-1 victory over Clemson Saturday afternoon at Davenport Field. Kline allowed just two baserunners and did not walk a batter. Virginia (14-8-1) clinched its fifth-consecutive series victory against Clemson. Game three of the series is slated for…
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Three overtime turnovers by the No. 1 Virginia Cavaliers (8-1) set the table for the No. 2 Johns Hopkins Blue Jays (8-0) to walk out of Klöckner Stadium on Saturday afternoon with the victory, 11-10, in front of 6,899 fans. The UVa loss snapped a 14-game winning streak inside Klöckner Stadium, the longest current streak…
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The 12th-ranked Virginia women’s lacrosse team earned a 14-12 victory at sixth-ranked Duke on Saturday (March 24) at Koskinen Stadium. The victory, UVa’s second-consecutive, improved the Cavaliers’ record to 6-4 overall and 1-2 in Atlantic Coast Conference play. The loss was Duke’s first league setback of the year as the Blue Devils fell to 8-4…
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Music, particularly blues, has been with musician and Mojo Saturday Night producer Kevin Chisnell since childhood. “I heard a guy playing a harmonica, and I made my sister go to the music store with me, and we bought one. And I drove everybody nuts for quite some time trying to blow and learn on that…
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