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Staff Report Business news tips: [email protected] The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce announced today that Frank Tamberrino has been selected to serve as the organization’s president and chief executive officer. He will begin his role as CEO in December 2009. Tamberrino has 25 years of experience in the field of economic and community development and…
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Virginia Tech freshman running back Ryan Williams was among the 10 semifinalists for the Doak Walker Award named today. Williams is one of two freshmen on the semifinalist list and one of three ACC players on the list. He has rushed for 1,109 yards and has 11 total touchdowns this year. He is ninth nationally…
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In an effort to set a new Virginia women’s basketball single-game attendance record, the promotion that helped set the current mark 22 years ago is back on Nov. 22 vs. Tennessee – Hot Dog Day. All Cavalier fans in attendance at this year’s Virginia-Tennessee game on Sunday, Nov. 22, will receive a coupon for a…
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When a top Nazi scientist arrives at a POW camp in the Shenandoah Valley, he begins to redraw plans for a lost weapon. The device, Germany believes, will disable the U.S. East Coast, leading to America’s surrender or at least a neutrality pact. Cadets at Waynesboro’s Fishburne Military School uncover the plot, also involving a…
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The losses of Assane Sene and Jamil Tucker will make an already thin UVa. frontcourt that much thinner. “It makes us, I guess, thin, on more of the forward or front-line type of things,” ‘Hoos coach Tony Bennett said on the eve of his first game on the sidelines at the John Paul Jones Arena,…
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Forward Jamil Tucker is taking an indefinite leave of absence from the Virginia men’s basketball team to focus on personal matters UVa head coach Tony Bennett announced on Wednesday. Tucker, a 6-9 senior from Gary, Ind., will not play in games or practice with the team during his leave of absence. “Jamil has some things…
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A pair of former Keydets have been selected in the 2009 NBA Development League draft, held on Thursday, Nov. 5. In the third round, Reggie Williams ’08 was selected by the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Skyforce, while Travis Holmes ’09 was taken by the Utah Flash in the event’s sixth round. Williams (Prince George, Va.) spent…
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Elections are over except for the post-mortems. While winners may be tired from strenuous campaigning, there is little time to relax. The deadline for requesting the drafting of pre-filed legislation is Dec. 7. By the middle of December, a $70 billion biennium budget must be ready for the legislature to consider. The annual General Assembly…
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Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) announced today that the Interior Appropriations Act of 2010, enacted into law on Oct. 30, restored a funding shortfall for the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program, following Webb’s request. Sen. Webb highlighted the funding shortfall and pushed for a provision in the legislation in an Oct. 20 letter to…
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It was a moderate centrist Bob McDonnell who ran up a large majority in last week’s gubernatorial election. It’s a right-wing Bob McDonnell vowing to opt Virginia out of health-care reform if given a chance by Congress. The duel between the Two McDonnells could get mighty interesting these next four years, AFP editor Chris Graham…
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