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UVA Football: FSU AD firing reminds us that we have a good one in Carla Williams
The UVA Football program is where it is, and not where Florida State is, because Carla Williams had a plan.
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Community Foundation event will provide fundraising tips for nonprofit leaders
The Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge is hosting a one-day conference on Wednesday, Sept. 23, entitled Fundraising in a Shifting Landscape.
Behind the scenes as Waynesboro City Council weighs the fate of Mimosa Farm
The Mimosa Farm permit is on the Waynesboro City Council docket for a possible yay-or-nay vote on Monday night.
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VDOT: Local road construction, maintenance for the week of Sept. 14-18
VDOT has released an updated list of road construction and maintenance projects for the local area for the week of Sept. 14-18.
What Staunton Schools would be able to do with a 1 percent sales tax hike
Voters in localities across the state, including the City of Staunton, will be asked on the Nov. 3 ballot to approve a 1 percent local sales tax to provide local money for new school construction and renovation projects.
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Gas, diesel prices continue to move toward sky-high: Any end in sight?
Gas will run you, on average, $4.26 a gallon today, down from the recent high of $4.30 a gallon from this past Friday, but nonetheless still 17.2 cents per gallon higher than where we were a week ago, per data from GasBuddy.
Beth Macy pledges to back congressional data center moratorium
Issues involving proposed data centers are, for the most part, local issues, but Beth Macy, running for Congress representing the Valley, thinks the feds can do more to back local residents who don’t want these AI-enabling monstrosities in their backyards.
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First look: West Virginia is 2-0 early, but not exactly against tough tests
West Virginia, the next-up for #25 Virginia, improved to 2-0 on the season with a 52-7 win over UT-Martin, an FCS school, on Saturday.
UVA Football: Why do you play games that you know will end up 59-3?
I’m trying to find the value in 59-3 blowouts of FCS teams that won one game last season, to justify leaving the house last night to half-watch a UVA Football game that not even the TV people wanted any part of.
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Florida State fires AD, who ran up huge debt, underfunded FSU Football
Florida State has fired its athletics director, Michael Alford, who ran up the biggest athletics department debt in the country in his brief tenure, while somehow also giving his football program a tiny roster budget.
Fort Defiance grad makes switch from Bridgewater to EMU as assistant hoops coach
If basketball is a microcosm for life – the highs and the lows – then Marsha (Houff) Justice has certainly encountered a wide range of emotions in her coaching career.
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What do we know about ACC Football after two weeks? Still not all that much
The best non-conference win, through two weeks, for an ACC Football program, using the ESPN Football Power Index as the guide?
UVA Football: ACC announces kickoff time for Sept. 26 home game
The annual UVA Strong game, this year set for Saturday, Sept. 26, with Delaware as the opponent, will kick off at 6 p.m. ET, per an announcement from the ACC on Monday. The UVA Strong game will honor the lives and memories of Lavel Davis Jr., Devin Chandler and D’Sean Perry, whose destinies were cut...
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