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Season tickets for 2011 Virginia football home games will be on sale to all fans starting Monday, March 21. The season ticket price in all lower level sections and the upper level sideline sections is $270 – the same price as last season. New this year are three specially priced season ticket options in Scott…
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Virginia-based CustomInk.com has established a new digital and screen printing operation for custom apparel in Albemarle County. The project will create more than 100 new jobs in the next few years. CustomInk is a privately held company that provides an online service that people use to design and order custom-decorated products, such as printed T-shirts…
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AFP editor Chris Graham talks news and sports on WREL-1450AM’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan.” The segment begins with a review of Virginia politics news. The focus in that sector is still on what Tim Kaine will or will not do regarding a potential run at the 2012 Democratic Senate nomination. A look at the Virginia…
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I warned my wife before we got in the car. “You’re going to love Coach K after this,” I said as we made our way over to the UVa.-Duke game in February. I had an extra press pass for the game, and my wife, a Virginia Tech grad, had never seen Duke in person. Figuring…
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I warned my wife before we got in the car. “You’re going to love Coach K after this,” I said as we made our way over to the UVa.-Duke game in February. I had an extra press pass for the game, and my wife, a Virginia Tech grad, had never seen Duke in person. Figuring…
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It is always winter in Richmond when the General Assembly meets. That’s the problem. It’s not autumn in New York. This past winter was again the season of political discontent. In the imperial city along the James hot air from the 140 delegates and senators go up against all that cold stuff down from God….
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For just about 72 hours, it was a widely known fact that the Virginia Commonwealth University men’s basketball team had taken issues with disparaging marks made by college basketball experts across the country about their inclusion in the 2011 NCAA Tournament. In just over two hours, that same team silenced all critics and completely shut…
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Catcher John Hicks had two home runs and drove in four to lead Virginia to a 7-3 victory over James Madison in a non-conference baseball matchup on Wednesday night at Davenport Field. Virginia won its 11th game in a row to improve to 17-1 overall. JMU fell to Virginia for the third straight time and…
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The No. 8 Virginia women’s lacrosse team erased a seven-goal second-half deficit against No. 16 William and Mary Wednesday night at Klockner Stadium, en route to a 14-13 victory. Down 12-5 with 25:23 to play, the Cavaliers scored nine of the game’s final 10 goals to improve to 15-1 against their in-state rival under head…
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Gov. Bob McDonnell met Wednesday with the new prime minister of Ireland, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, to discuss economic development and trade between Virginia and Ireland. He was joined at the meeting in Washington, D.C. by Secretary of Commerce and Trade Jim Cheng. Ireland is now Virginia’s 10th largest agricultural export market per new 2010 figures….
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