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Augusta Free Press LLC and Awesome Wrestling Entertainment are teaming up on web and marketing efforts aimed at pushing the Virginia-based wrestling promotion into the big time. “I’d guess you’d call us a tag team,” AFP principal Chris Graham said of the partnership, which has the Waynesboro-based media-services company in charge of the development of…
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The Department of Veterans Affairs office at the Salem Medical Center will hold an outreach event at the Waynesboro Senior Center, 325 Pine Ave., Waynesboro, on Thursday, Feb. 24, from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. The purpose of this event is to share information about VA health services, resources, VA Health Care enrollment and eligibility,…
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Five players scored in double figures and the James Madison (9-5, 2-0 CAA) women’s basketball team used a 19-8 run in the final 5:50 to fend off William and Mary (1-11, 0-2) 89-75 in Colonial Athletic Association action on Thursday night at Kaplan Arena. Senior guard Dawn Evans (Clarksville, Tenn./Northeast) scored a game-high 29 points…
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Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., said the passage on Wednesday of the National Defense Authorization Act will improve the quality of life of our men and women in uniform while enhancing their operational capabilities throughout the world. The bill now goes to the president for his signature. “The passage of the defense authorization reflects our continued…
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The 1970s UCLA Bruins can rest easy. The UConn women didn’t break the record for longest winning streak by a D1 men’s college basketball team. And there is no record for longest winning streak by a D1 team men’s or women’s. What the UConn women did was extend their record winning streak for a D1…
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Gov. Bob McDonnell wants to see the Virginia National Guard adhere to the same rules as the Department of Defense with respect to its treatment of gays and lesbians serving in the nation’s military. McDonnell addressed the issue on his monthly call-in show on WTOP in response to questions that have arisen regarding legislation that…
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Editor Chris Graham joins WREL’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan” to talk Virginia sports. The segment begins with the up-and-down Virginia men’s basketball team, which won in spite of itself Monday night over a one-win Norfolk State team. Which Cavs are the ones that are for real? The ones with wins on the road over Minnesota…
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Editor Chris Graham joins WREL’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan” to talk Virginia sports. The segment begins with the up-and-down Virginia men’s basketball team, which won in spite of itself Monday night over a one-win Norfolk State team. Which Cavs are the ones that are for real? The ones with wins on the road over Minnesota…
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Retired Ford executive Bob Terrell was reminded of his childhood while working with a U.S. soldier returning from Afghanistan struggling to get back on his feet. “In 2001, we sent our young men and women to war to die and be wounded and maimed, and here at home 98 percent of us have gone on…
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Jenna Longenecker and Jesse Weaver demonstrate flamenco dancing during the university chapel program Dec. 15. Photo by Michael Spory. Twenty-four Eastern Mennonite University students returned to campus obviously elated by their “life-changing” experiences of the fall semester, 2010. “Thank you, EMU, for the incredible opportunities we had,” the group said in a university chapel…
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