Wildlife Center to play role in post-spill Gulf

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected]   They’ve got plenty of people down on the Gulf Coast washing oil off birds. Ed Clark is focusing his attention at the Wildlife Center of Virginia on ecosystem issues. “We don’t need to go down there and wash birds. They’re already well cared for by the professional groups. What…

Jim Bishop: It still looks pretty good from the road

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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected]   I hardly recognized the place. But then, it was Laurelville Camp with a Rt. 2, Mt. Pleasant, Pa., address when I had my main associations as acamper, staff member for two summers and a counselor. Today, it’s Laurelville Mennonite Church Center to reflect the broader range…

ACC releases first portion of 2010 football TV schedule

Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   Nineteen televised games in the first three weeks of the season, including 10 national exposures, headline the early-season football television schedule announced Thursday by Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford.  The ACC begins 2010 in a big way with nationally-televised neutral site contests on Saturday and Monday of Labor…

UVa. trio, JMU’s Munson make All-America teams

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   Virginia was represented by three of its players on the 2010 Collegiate Baseball All-America team, announced today by the publication. Danny Hultzen (So., Bethesda, Md.) was named to the first team, while Kevin Arico (Jr., Flemington, N.J.) and Phil Gosselin (Jr., West Chester, Pa.) each earned third-team honors. Hultzen…

Democrats criticize Cuccinelli on picketing case

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected]   Virginia Democrats are howling over Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s refusal to file a legal brief in support of the family of a fallen U.S. soldier suing a fundamentalist church that uses military funerals as a backdrop to protest gay rights. “I have a real problem with anyone who wants…

Webb brings veterans fundraising issue to feds’ attention

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   Following a multistate investigation into the legitimacy and fundraising practices of the U.S. Navy Veterans Association, Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., has brought the organization’s questionable activities to the attention of the Internal Revenue Service and requested a full report of its findings. A 501 (c)(19) registered organization, the U.S….

UVa. files papers opposing Cuccinelli climate-change review

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   The University of Virginia today filed papers with the Albemarle County Circuit Court opposing attempts by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to obtain documents related to the research of former UVa. professor Michael Mann, a global warming expert once employed by the school. Cuccinelli is seeking a wide range…

Wilson Library to participate in Blue Star program

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum will participate in the Blue Star Museum program and offer free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day, May 31, through Labor Day, September 6, 2010. The Blue Star Museum program is a partnership with the…

Ken Plum: Lessons from tragedies

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Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com   There was undoubtedly a feeling of elation among the 2,228 passengers and crew members as they boarded the Titanic ocean liner for her maiden voyage April 10, 1912.  There was no way to know that by April 15 only 705 of them would survive her sinking.  After all, the…