
The miller’s life
Two or three times a year I dodge the barreling southbound trucks on Interstate 81 and travel towards Raphine, to cook with Georgie Young at Wade’s Mill.

Two or three times a year I dodge the barreling southbound trucks on Interstate 81 and travel towards Raphine, to cook with Georgie Young at Wade’s Mill.

What a first month of a football season Virginia Tech has lined up for itself. The #7 Hokies open up with #5 Alabama in the Georgia Dome, then host, in order, Marshall, #22 Nebraska and Miami in a Sept. 26 ACC opener. I’m saying this now – if Tech is 4-0 heading into October against…

TechSideline.com managing editor Chris Coleman talks Virginia Tech football with AFP editor Chris Graham. Length: 7:57.

Virginia Sports Properties, a division of CBS Collegiate Sports Properties, the multimedia rights partner of the Virginia athletics department, announced today that former Cavalier defensive end Chris Slade has joined the Virginia Sports Network. Slade will serve as the sideline reporter for Cavalier football games after Tim Sherman decided not to return for the 2009…

Virginia Military Institute head basketball coach Duggar Baucom will soon depart on an overseas trip to visit U.S. military bases over a period of 10 days during the month of August.

The Washington Wizards announced that the team will conduct their 2009 training camp at the Siegel Center on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond for the sixth consecutive season.

You might have seen the news in Friday’s News Virginian about me being named president of the Waynesboro Generals Valley League baseball team. If not, check it out here. The story is by NV sports editor Rob Sisk. The next year is going to feel presidential, alright. It’s not quite turning around a tanking economy…

Looks like we’re going with the expansive definition of the Shenandoah Valley for the conclusion of the Deeds Country Tour. The closest the tour will get to the actual Shenandoah Valley is on Sunday when it wraps in Deeds’ home Bath County with a homecoming event. Which is all well and good, but we’re leaving…

Sadly, more of our friends and neighbors will be laid off from work with the closing of the Tyco plant in Mount Sydney. Our communities have seen far too many of our manufacturing jobs lost, and employers moving or closing their doors. Unfortunately, far too little has been done at the General Assembly level to…

Friday, Aug. 7, 2009 – Remarks by the president on the economy in the Rose Garden – Statement by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the visit of Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada to the White House – President nominates three more U.S. attorneys – Press briefing by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
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