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Five members of the Virginia men’s soccer team earned 2015 All-ACC honors, as the all-conference and all-freshman teams were announced Tuesday by the conference following voting by the league’s 12 head coaches. It marks UVA’s most honorees since the 2006 season.
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Angela Lynn sent a statement of thanks to supporters and volunteers who aided her 25th House District campaign, Lynn came up short in her bid to unseat Republican Steve Landes in the 25th, which includes portions of Albemarle County, Augusta County and Rockingham County.
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We’ve made it a practice here at Augusta Free Press in recent years to forego doing political endorsements, not because we don’t have an opinion on we think should win, because we do, but because we’re not sure of the value of endorsements in this day and age.
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This Election Day you have a clear choice for delegate of the 20th District. You have a choice between someone who isn’t scared to take a stance and protect your natural rights and someone who goes along with their party, part of the broken two-party system.
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The goal for any marketing campaign is to get attention to whatever it is you’re trying to get attention to, and to prod a specific action as a form of reaction. In that context, let’s look at the ad insert in the News Leader in Staunton from Augusta County Republicans.
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I’m voting for Derek Almarode for sheriff not only for his strong family values, or even his outstanding service to the people if this county as a member of the sheriff’s office. What he did for me and my family truly displayed the character and professionalism that I look for in an elected official.
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Back in 2004, rapper P. Diddy started an organization called Citizen Change and launched a campaign called Vote or Die. Diddy and the campaign were subsequently mocked in some circles, notably the popular TV show South Park.
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I know it is a safe assumption that readers of this column are regular voters. There is no need for me to carry on about the importance of voting, how elections matter, etc. You get it, but it is a bit shocking and disappointing to realize the small percentage of people who do.
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It’s been interesting to read the many letters to the editor declaring who the writers are supporting in the Augusta County sheriff race.
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North Carolina will enter the 2015-16 season as the Atlantic Coast Conference favorite, according to a vote of media in attendance at the league’s annual Operation Basketball.
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