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The AFP will be live at Scott Stadium for today’s Big 10-ACC matchup featuring the Indiana Hoosiers and the Virginia Cavaliers. Game time is 3:30 p.m. The game is being webcast on ESPN360. AFP editor Chris Graham will be reporting live from the press box with score updates, commentary, analysis and more. Join in with…
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Local paper puts content behind pay wall Valley newspaper publishers are watching with great interest how the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg fares with its recent move to put its online content entirely behind a pay wall. “That’s a pretty bold move. It will be interesting to see how it works out. I think publishers everywhere…
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Film lovers have known for some time that the early November forecast in Charlottesville was calling for some serious Funny Business. On Thursday, at a press conference at the University of Virginia Art Museum, new Virginia Film Festival Director Jody Kielbasa explained why. The 22nd annual Virginia Film Festival, set for Nov. 5-8 at venues…
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The State Corporation Commission has approved the sale of North River Telephone Cooperative to Shenandoah Telephone Co. As a result, NRTC will turn over its landlines to Shentel and dissolve the Cooperative. As outlined in his comments to the NRTC member/owners at the annual meeting held April 6, NRTC General Manager Myron Rummel spoke of…
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U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., this week sent a letter to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations requesting that the Civil War Battlefield Preservation Program be funded at the House-supported level of $9 million in the FY 2010 Interior-Environment Appropriations bill.
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Sen. Creigh Deeds stopped in Charlottesville on Wednesday to discuss his plans to increase access to higher education with students and faculty at the University of Virginia. At the stop, Deeds outlined his plan to create 70,000 new degrees over the next 10 years. At the core of that plan is the ‘Virginia Forward’ scholarship…
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U.S. Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner and Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello today lauded passage of legislation that would authorize the Department of the Interior to study whether the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford could be transferred to the National Park Service. The legislation was written in consultation with the Memorial, which recently reported…
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With just about 50 days to go before the Commonwealth’s landmark smoking ban goes into effect, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is joining dining patrons and community leaders across Virginia today to highlight restaurants that have already gone smoke-free. The new law—called “monumental” in one of the nation’s biggest tobacco-producing states—takes effect Dec. 1 and will…
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The Virginia Department of Taxation has already had an overwhelming response to its Sept. 28 announcement that Virginians can take advantage of a tax amnesty program that forgives and forgets if you pay-up late taxes within the next 60 days. In an effort to meet the demand for information, the agency opened their toll-free phone…
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The Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney has dropped charges brought against four Latino men who were arrested for loitering while merely standing on a public sidewalk near their apartment complex in Manassas. The ACLU of Virginia, which represents the four men, argued that the charges should be dismissed because the ordinance -which makes it illegal…
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