Chase Community Giving and the Wildlife Center of Virginia

Chase Community Giving is a philanthropic effort held by JPMorgan Chase in which charity projects will receive money in accordance to votes by the public on Facebook. The staff at the Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro is encouraging friends, community members, and supporters to cast a vote for the Wildlife Center. Voting is now…

Long-time ODU women's hoops coach Wendy Larry steps down

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Old Dominion University athletic director Dr. Wood Selig announced today that Wendy Larry has stepped down as head women’s basketball coach. She will remain at the University, with responsibilities for assisting the Office of Institutional Advancement for athletic related fundraising projects, and Alumni events. Larry’s career at Old Dominion spanned more than 30 years, as…

United Way announces grant funding for 2011-2012

Chris Graham

The United Way of Greater Augusta on Monday announced its grant funding to local programs and services for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.    Organization Program: Area of Focus   Funding Amount American Red Cross   Disaster-Health   $ 10,000   Augusta Free Clinic   Dental-Health   $ 20,000   Big Brothers/Big Sisters   Mentoring-Education  …

JMU completes sweep of Towson

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Senior left-hander Alex Valadja (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Catholic) limited Towson to one run in six innings and the bottom of the order did most of the damage in James Madison’s 11-1 Colonial Athletic Association baseball victory Sunday afternoon at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park. With its seventh straight conference victory, JMU clinched a spot in…

BC prof awarded fellowship to write book

An assistant professor of history at Bridgewater College has become the college’s first faculty member to be awarded a Residential Fellowship from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Kara Dixon Vuic received the fellowship to support the writing of her next book, which will chronicle the history of women who performed recreation work for the…

Jim Bishop: Receive these baccalaureate blessings for the road

Jim Bishop

I’m neither a preacher nor a theologian, although earlier on my daughters would have declared that indeed I did preach at them regularly. And even though I’m a Bishop, I’m not ordained – disdained, maybe. There seems to be a prevailing notion that if one has had a few things published along the way that…

BC student to join Bike Adventure Across America this summer

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Long, tiring days and sore muscles are some of the things Martha Joslyn, a junior at Bridgewater College, will experience this summer as she bikes across the United States and helps to build and renovate homes. A psychology major from Tappahannock, Va., with a minor in neuroscience, Joslyn is joining The Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure,…