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JMU senior third baseman Ty McFarland (Bridgewater, Va./Turner Ashby) earned Colonial Athletic Association baseball Player of the Week honors last week after belting three home runs for James Madison.
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The headline in the News Leader last week said a lot: “Augusta County schools face $3.9M deficit.” And it was an accurate picture, at least based on what county school leaders wanted the local media to paint for them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Cold temperatures and regularly occurring snowstorms this winter have even hardy folks like Virginia farmers eager for spring to arrive.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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