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Pat Cook will be the featured speaker at this Monday’s “Conversations about Art” at the Beverley Street Gallery, February 18 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Cook will discuss how to develop a series and keep it interesting.
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Center fielder Jacob May delivered a go-ahead single in the fourth to put his team ahead and the Coastal Carolina bullpen tossed four scoreless innings in a 4-3 victory over JMU in the baseball season opener for both teams on Friday afternoon at Francis Marion University’s Sparrow Stadium.
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The Republican controlled House Elections Subcommittee defeated bills that would have allowed Virginia seniors to vote by no-excuse absentee ballot and prevented election officials from rejecting an absentee ballot due to minor technical errors.
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Senior guard Tarik Hislop (Silver Spring, Md./Paint Branch) scored 22 points, 18 of them in the second half, to lead JMU (16-8, 10-2) to a 68-56 win at Old Dominion (16-8, 7-5) in Colonial Athletic Association women’s basketball Tuesday evening at the Constant Convocation Center.
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The war over toxic chemicals and human health is spilling over into places we live and work: our buildings. The American Chemical Council has launched an expensive and focused attack on the U.S. Green Building Council to protect the status quo of a small set of bad-actor manufacturers of toxic and obsolete chemicals. But innovative companies across the building industries and human health advocates are fighting back.
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The JMU women’s basketball team got closer to #20 Delaware than any other Colonial Athletic Association team this season, but the Dukes saw their winning streak end at eight games with a 71-64 loss to the Blue Hens Sunday afternoon at the JMU Convocation Center.
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Fear can be a powerful influence in our lives. A healthy fear of something that is harmful may keep us safe. Fear of the unknown can cause helpful caution or limit our perspective. Too often fear can be misused to manipulate the actions of others. In Richmond as elsewhere, fear is evident and at work in many aspects of the legislative process.
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JMU posted its eighth straight women’s basketball win as the Dukes topped visiting North Carolina Wilmington 74-43 in Colonial Athletic Association action Thursday evening at the JMU Convocation Center.
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Lisa Jacenich makes fabric out of wool. She takes fibers shorn, cleaned and dyed and adds hot water, soap and agitation, plus a big dollop of creativity, turning a pile of loose, wool fibers into wearable art: a jacket, a dress, a shawl, purse, vessel, lamps, wall decorations … the possibilities are endless.
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Novak Porter was a freshman at Fishburne Military School in search of a winter sport. He tried basketball, but decided quickly that wasn’t for him. Then he ran into the man known around campus as Coach C. “I said, Coach C, tell me about wrestling. He said, Porter, I’ll tell you right now. It’s a sport that will kick your butt,” said Porter, now a senior and four-year member of the FMS wrestling program. It’s with that sales pitch, repeated over and over, that Coach C, aka Rich Chiarolanzio, has turned the Fishburne program into one of the top wrestling programs in the state of Virginia.
