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The Staunton Convention Visitors Bureau, Staunton Downtown Development Association and the Staunton Music Guild announced Wednesday that they have been awarded a $4,840 marketing grant as part of Virginia Tourism Corporation’s Marketing Leverage Program. The VTC program is designed to stimulate new tourism marketing programs through the creation of local, area and regional tourism partnerships….
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Note to status-quo foes in Waynesboro: We’re wrong, way wrong. We don’t want to be more like Staunton. Look at the numbers. If anything, they should want to be more like us. The numbers don’t lie. Our economy is bigger – much bigger – than Staunton’s. According to taxable-sales figures from the Weldon Cooper Center…
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A two-RBI Alan Stoupa single gave Waynesboro a 2-1 sixth-inning lead, but Front Royal responded with four in the bottom of the sixth, the big blow a two-out, three-run homer by Sean Jamieson, and the Royals took Game 1 of the teams’ Valley League first-round playoff series, 6-2, Tuesday night. Jarryd Summers (2-2) took the…
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It’s settled, according to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli – local and state law-enforcement officers in Virginia can ask about the immigration status of anyone stopped or arrested. This is from a legal opinion issued by the attorney general’s office last week to answer a question posed by State Del. Bob Marshall, a social conservative…
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Complex are the issues we face as nation and world, but rarely does anyone seem to engage in the intelligent, extended conversation that illuminates and brings minds together, rather than arousing and dividing. Such a rarity happened on Saturday in Hot Springs. I happened upon the Virginia Bar Association’s annual meeting. A friend suggested that…
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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced on Tuesday that DuPont will invest $20 million to establish a facility in Chesterfield County to make the first nanofiber-based polymeric separators for high-performance lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles and many other potential commercial uses. The facility, an early commercial-scale plant to produce the new material for this growing market,…
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A seven-run fourth rallied Waynesboro from a 4-1 deficit in game two of a doubleheader at Harrisonburg and earned the Generals a split with the Turks on Monday. The split gives Waynesboro the #5 seed in the Valley League playoffs, which get going Tuesday night with the Generals traveling to Front Royal to take on…
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Season tickets and two five-game mini-packages for the 2010-11 Virginia men’s basketball season are on sale beginning today, Monday, Aug. 2. This is a change from recent years when season ticket sales began after the release of the Cavaliers’ schedule by the Atlantic Coast Conference office in late August. This change allows fans to be…
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Fifth District Democrat Tom Perriello and Republican challenger Robert Hurt are continuing their spat on debates in their fall campaign. The Perriello campaign accused Hurt of backing out of a pair of agreed-upon televised debates in an e-mail today. The Hurt campaign answered with an e-mail accusing Perriello of being afraid to debate the challenger….
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U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., on Monday called on the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. government development organization funded by American tax dollars, to immediately cease action on multimillion-dollar development projects awarded to non-U.S. companies in Africa. “At a time when our economy is struggling to recover, I am concerned that the funding of Chinese…
