
Freshwater shrimp becoming big deal with help of Virginia Cooperative Extension, Virginia Tech
As the freshwater shrimp in his ponds continued to grow and multiply, Charles Carter knew he had a good product to sell.

As the freshwater shrimp in his ponds continued to grow and multiply, Charles Carter knew he had a good product to sell.

Jonathan Atkins, a 1996 graduate of Bridgewater College, will speak about the influence George Lucas and the Star Wars films have had on Hollywood film mythology at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2, in Cole Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

The American Farm Bureau Federation has joined a coalition of agricultural and other groups asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that allows the Environmental Protection Agency to micromanage land use under the guise of implementing the federal Clean Water Act.

The Bridgewater College football team finished strong on Senior Day, with an emphatic 45-13 victory over visiting Catholic. The 4-6 season did not go how Bridgewater would have liked, but the Eagles sent their 28 seniors out in style with that class contributing four touchdown passes, a TD reception, two TD rushes, and an interception.

Bridgewater College has announced that James H. Walsh of Richmond, Va., has been elected chair of the college’s board of trustees, replacing outgoing chair Nathan H. Miller, of Bridgewater, whose term concluded with the 2015 annual meeting on November 6.

Afrikaner Christo Brand – one of the men who guarded Nelson Mandela for 12 years in a South African prison and who became the future South African president’s confidant and accomplice – will speak at Bridgewater College on Sunday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m., in Cole Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Bridgewater College has been ranked one of the 50 Great Small Colleges for a Bachelor’s in Psychology 2015 by Online Psychology Degree Guide.

The Senate failed on Tuesday to reach cloture on a bill that would have effectively weakened the Clean Water Act and nullified the Clean Water Rule, an Obama administration effort to restore Clean Water Act protections for about half of the nation’s stream miles and the wetlands associated with these smaller streams.

The host Tigers shut down Bridgewater in the second half, as the BC football team lost 27-3 on Saturday at Hampden-Sydney.

In anticipation of Halloween, Environment Virginia unveiled the What’s Brewing in the James: Ten Scariest Water Facts, showing that, while improving, a terrifying concoction of chemicals, bacteria, and other pollutants still plague the James and Virginia’s waterways.