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Funding challenges, the far-reaching impact of the Chesapeake Bay Act, and the rapidly rising importance of urban conservation took center stage at the Spring Meeting of the six Soil and Water Conservation Districts serving the 13 counties of the Shenandoah Valley and adjacent highlands. Addressing the 60+ attendees, State Sen. Emmett Hanger, R-Mount Solon, noted…
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It was one of those too rare early spring days that unexpectedly emerge out of the blue. The sky remains clear, the air fresh, temperatures slowly rise and hover in the low 70s and the distant haze dissipates, revealing the purple majesty of the Blue Ridge Mountains. I could only be outside a short time,…
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Nine James Madison pitchers tossed one inning apiece to combine on a four-hitter in a 6-1 victory over Maryland in a nonconference baseball game Tuesday evening at Shipley Field. JMU improved to 26-12 overall with its fourth win in five games and defeated Maryland for the second time in seven days after a 12-8 win…
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Four batters collected three or more hits as part of a 21-hit attack as James Madison scored nine unanswered runs to knock off UNC Greensboro 17-7 in a non-conference baseball game Sunday afternoon at the UNCG Baseball Stadium. JMU improved to 25-12 overall while UNCG dropped to 18-16. The Dukes reclaimed their spot as the…
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Brazil Rule and C.J. Higdon of SMAC swimming represented the Virginia State Swim Team recently in Rochester, N.Y. They competed against the best swimmers from all the Northeastern states. Virginia Swimming selected Rule and Higdon to represent Virginia against 11 other states and regions in the 2011 Eastern Zones All-Star Championships. The Eastern Zones All-Star…
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The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce that MillerCoors Shenandoah Brewery and Dave’s Downtown Taverna are winners of the Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards. The awards were presented last week at the 2011 Environment Virginia Symposium in Lexington. MillerCoors received a Gold Medal for its outstanding recycling and sustainability program. Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill…
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It’s been just a year since the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Rather than focus on enacting much needed safety and environmental reforms, Rep. Goodlatte wants to open Virginia’s waters to drilling, as if last year never happened (“Goodlatte bill would push offshore drilling off Virginia waters,” April 6, 2011). The notion that…
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Major newspapers in the United States are referencing Wikipedia more often and framing the online encyclopedia more positively in stories, according to a study by a pair of faculty researchers in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Mass Communications. In the study, published in the April issue of “Journalism Practice,” researchers analyzed the framing of…
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James Madison used a five-run eighth inning to cap a rally from a 6-1 deficit and win the opener 9-6 while Georgia State coasted to a 16-3 triumph in the second game of a Colonial Athletic Association baseball doubleheader on Saturday afternoon at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park. JMU stands at 22-10 overall and…
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Junior Evan Scott (Haymarket, Va./Battlefield) hit a pinch-hit, go-ahead home run and junior catcher Jake Lowery (Midlothian, Va./Cosby) drove in five with a pair of homers as James Madison scored six runs in the ninth to rally past Liberty 16-12 for the 600th coaching victory for Spanky McFarland in a non-conference baseball game Wednesday afternoon…
