VDOT Roads Report: Feb. 24-28
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The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton VDOT transportation district during the coming weeks.
Search Results for water
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JMU women’s basketball clinches CAA regular-season title
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Senior guard Kirby Burkholder (Bridgewater, Va./Turner Ashby) collected her second consecutive double-double with 28 points and 11 rebounds to lead the James Madison women’s basketball team to a 78-47 win over Hofstra at the JMU Convocation Center in Harrisonburg, Va., Sunday.
JMU baseball sweeps doubleheader from Binghamton
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James Madison fought back from a 9-1 deficit in the second game of a doubleheader and the top three batters in the order pounded out 16 hits and 13 RBIs in two games as JMU swept Binghamton 9-2 in seven innings and 11-9 in non-conference baseball action on Saturday.
Earth Talk: Dirty fuels
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The term dirty fuels refers to fuels derived from tar sands, oil shale or liquid coal. Just like their more conventional fossil fuel counterparts such as petroleum and coal, they can be turned into gasoline, diesel and other energy sources that can generate extreme amounts of particulate pollution, carbon emissions and ecosystem destruction during their lifecycles from production to consumption.
Who doesn’t mind the snowy winter? Farmers
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Cold temperatures and regularly occurring snowstorms this winter have even hardy folks like Virginia farmers eager for spring to arrive.
JMU women’s basketball clinches #1 seed in CAA Tourney
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JMU clinched the No. 1 seed in next month’s Colonial Athletic Association tournament with a 72-61 victory over Delaware at the Bob Carpenter Center in Newark, Del., Thursday evening.
Cooler summer? Record level of ice on Lake Superior may be culprit
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AccuWeather.com reports that with no end in sight, the winter of 2014 rages on, ushering in frigid Arctic air and dumping record-breaking snow and ice on much of the nation. This season, ice coverage on Lake Superior has exceeded other measurements in recent history.
JMU baseball wins home opener over Longwood, 14-7
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Shutting down the visiting Longwood bats for 7.2 innings, the JMU baseball team started the home part of its 2014 season with a 14-7 victory at Veterans Memorial Park, Feb. 19. With the win, the Dukes evened their record at 2-2, while the Lancers dropped to 1-3.
JMU women’s basketball now 11-0 in CAA with 69-58 win over Drexel
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Redshirt sophomore forward Jazmon Gwathmey (Bealeton, Va./Liberty) scored a game-high 16 points on 7-for-9 shooting from the field to lead the JMU women’s basketball team to a 69-58 win over Drexel at the Daskalakis Athletic Center in Philadelphia, Pa., Sunday evening.
Shepherd Bliss: Dancing with Death at Death Cafes
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There was something old-fashioned and even spiritual about selecting the time of one’s own death and then inviting friends over. I have learned a lot about life, love, and death from the Day of the Dead and Nearings’ passage over thirty years ago, as well as from other death experiences. Death can be a teacher, if one moves beyond denial into acceptance—harder in some cases than others. A death awareness movement seems to be growing and takes various forms.
