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The Fishburne Military School postgrad basketball team trailed by as many as 11 points in a ragged first half, but the Caissons took control with a 16-0 second-half run en route to an 81-62 win over the Bridgewater College JV team. “I think our pressure just started wearing them down,” FMS assistant coach Derrick Robinson…
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Bridgewater College won its first-ever ODAC title while Olivia Mills (Fredericksburg, Va./Fredericksburg Christian) and BC coach Brian Flynn took home top honors Saturday at the ODAC Cross Country Championship Meet. Mills ran away with the individual title and was named ODAC Runner of Year after she led the Eagles to a comfortable win in the…
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For some citizens of Augusta County who are not able to get potable water because public water or private wells are not available at their location, another option is now available. Thanks to a cooperative project between the Augusta County Board of Supervisors and the Augusta County Service Authority, a new water kiosk is now…
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The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has awarded the City of Waynesboro $100,000 in grant money from the Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund for a project entitled “Retrofitting Our Way to a Healthy South River.” The City will work with several partners during the course of the multifaceted project including the Center for Watershed Protection, Central…
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Tom Farrey, an Emmy award-winning correspondent for ESPN and author of Game On: The All-American Race to Make Champions of Our Children, will speak at Bridgewater College on Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Cole Hall. The program, sponsored by the W. Harold Row Endowed Lecture Series is free and open to the public….
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Three stellar former Bridgewater College athletes and a former coach have been selected for induction into the college’s Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday, Oct. 14, in the Kline Campus Center, as part of Homecoming activities. The inductees will also be recognized the following day at half-time of the Eagles’ Homecoming football game against the…
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Bridgewater College plans to save 50 trees this year. In its ongoing mission to make the college environmentally responsible and sustainable, Bridgewater has instituted a campus-wide printing system that eliminates laser printers from labs and classrooms and replaces them with 15 printing kiosks located throughout the campus. The new printing system is expected to reduce…
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Martin Perry, three-time NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year, has been named the new head coach of the Bridgewater College men’s and women’s tennis programs in an announcement made by President George Cornelius and Director of Athletics Curt Kendall. Perry has spent the last eight-plus years as the head men’s and women’s coach…
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Bridgewater College President George Cornelius and director of athletics Curt Kendall have announced the hiring of Tarah Miller as the college’s first head coach for women’s golf, a program that will begin play in the fall of 2012. Miller is currently an apprentice in the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) and is expected to receive…
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USDA NRCS has approved $50,000 in funding to sustain ongoing partnership activities with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to improve water quality in the Shenandoah Valley. Authorized through the Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative (CCPI), this project is part of a multi-stakeholder effort to target technical assistance and funding in the high-density animal production regions of Page,…
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