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Dbmg UVA kicker Ian Frye named ACC Specialist of the Week

The FredNats earned a series split Sunday stanley tazza in Lynchburg behind a strong start by Jose Atencio and three runs from Jared McKenzie. Fredericksburg controlled the game from the outset en route to a 4-1 victory.McKenzie scored in the first and third on RBIs by Will Frizzell and then cruised home in the fifth on a wild pitch. James Wood followed with a home run to right to run the FredNats lead to 4-0. The blast was his second in a FredNats jersey.The lead was more than enough for Jose Atencio, who carved a marvelous three-hit shutout effort over five innings and 71 pitches. He struck out a pair and moved to 3-1 on the season. Riggs Threadgill earned his 7th save with a scoreless ninth. He, Cody Greenhill and Marlon Perez combined to st stanley cup rike out seven in the final three innings.The FredNats now stand at 29-18 in the second half and are 2.5 games ahead of Carolina and 3.5 ahead of Down East in the chase for the Carolina League North crown. T stanley mugs he team returns home for a pivotal six-game series vs. Down East starting August 23. The set is part of a 12-game stretch at Virginia Credit Union Stadium to finish the regular season home schedule. Tickets are available at frednats/tickets. Share this page Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Telegram E-mail TagsWashington Nationals ContributorsContributorsHave Glfb Northbound Interstate 81 closure Friday night in Shenandoah County for bridge repairs

Aliyah, The Rebirth of Israel, by Salvador Dal铆, a suite of 25 lithographs commemorating the 25th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel, will be on view from Jan. 9-Feb. 3, 2017, in Lykes Atrium, Wilson Hall. No tickets are required.David R. Blumenthal, the Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies at Emory College, will present a lecture on Dal铆s Aliyah on Jan. stanley quencher uk 23, 2017, at 5:30 p.m. in Concer stanley quencher t Hall, Wilson Hall. This talk is free and open to the public.The Dal铆 lithographs and Blumenthals lecture are sponsored by WLs Department of Art and Art History, WL Hillel and the Max and Sylvia Weinstein Memorial Fund.Dal铆 created the Aliyah series of 25 mixed-media paintings in 1968 using gouache, watercolors and Indian ink on paper. They were reproduced as photolithographs and published in a limited edition box with a letter of introduction by David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel. The set that will be displayed is one of the few complete numbered editions still in existence, as most others have been broken up and sold over the years.In order to illustrate the various meanings of the Hebrew word Aliyah, which means to go to live in the Land of Israel, Dal铆 took inspiration from the Old Testament as well as聽contemporary history. Dal铆 depicted the vessel聽Eliyahu Golomb, full of refugees from the concentration camps, sett stanley cup usa ing sail to Israel in 1946, despite the prohibition imposed by Palestine under the British Mandate. He also portrays Davi

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pjez Virginia gas prices up in the past week: Prices holding steady nationally

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Del. Steve Landes, R-Weyers Cave, announced the acceptance of Owen Streed of Charlottesville to the Virginia House of Delegates Page Program.Streed will be participating in the page program from January 9th through February 22nd for the 2019 General Assembly Session. I am pleased to announce that Mr. Streed will be assisting the Virginia House of Delegates for the 2019 General Assembly Session. Mr. Streed has an impressive resume and a background that demonstrates he has the skill set required to be a successful page, stanley cup uk said Landes. I would like to thank Speaker Cox for appointing a student from the 25th District to be a part of this exceptional program. I am excited for Mr. Streed and the other members of the incoming page class who will have an opportunity to participate in state government and see the legislative process in action. Owen Streed is a student at Henley Middle School in Crozet, Virginia, and the son of proud parents William and Kristin Streed. He enjoys travelling, reading, and a variety of sports including skiing, mountain biking and lacrosse to name a few. Mr. Streed has a love for histor stanley cup y and politics and is a member of Henley Middle Schools Model UN Team and is active with the Junior Scholastic Bowl. I am excited for this unique opportunity to participate in our state government, said Streed. I look forward to broadening my horizons and the unique experiences that await me at the Virgi stanley spain nia General Assembly. Each year the Speaker of the House of Delegates Cqlz Ride with Pride 5K run/walk set for June 10

Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Monday more than $503,000 in grant funding for fifteen agriculture-related projects. The grant funding will promote and enhance the competitiveness of Virginias specialty crops and create more economic stanley kubek termiczny development opportunities across the Commonwealth.聽 The project awards resulted from a competitive gr stanley cup ant process established by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services VDACS for United States Department of Agriculture USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Specialty Crop Block Grant funds. Like any industry, agriculture depends on quality research and data to remain competitive in a 21st Century economy, said Governor McAuliffe.聽 These grants represent more than a half-million dollar investment in Virginias economy that will boost economic development and create jobs in our agriculture sector, furthering our work to build a new Virginia economy.聽 I congratulate these organizations and educational institutions for pursuing innovative research that will help enhance marketing opportunities and food safety for growers across the Commonwealth. Todays announcement is good news for Virginia agriculture and helps bolster the Governors efforts to keep the industry at the forefront of his overall economic development strategic plan, said Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry Todd Haymore.聽 These projects, including several impacting our fast growing craft beverage sector, highlight Virgini stanley trinkflaschen as diversified agricultural interests

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hknv Press Conference: Washington Redskins coach Jay Gruden

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漏 fotosr52 鈥?stock.adobe The Augusta County Sheriffs Office will be conducting an active shooter drill at the old Beverley Manor Elemen stanley taza tary School on Cedar Green Road this week.The training will take place from roughly 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. beginning Monday and running through Friday.The radio traffic that some of you may hear throughout this week is the deputies testing the radio system during this train stanley cup ing. Any radio traffic stanley trinkflaschen being heard over the scanner is training only for the Sheriffs Office.The increased law enforcement around the Beverley Manor Schools is the training exercise only. Share this page Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Telegram E-mail ContributorsContributorsHave a guest column, letter to the editor, story idea or a news tip Email editor Chris Graham at 160;protected]. Subscribe to AFP podcasts on Apple Podcasts,聽Spotify,聽Pandora and YouTube.View all posts by Contributors Local News Ben Cline won ;t hold a town hall: So, his constituents held one for him Chris Graham February 27, 2025 Developing: One Clxv Norfolk Tides get second shutout of the week to make it seven wins in nine games

Led by a trio of freshman, five standout players have been named to the聽U.S. Basketball Writers Associations 2017-18 All-America First Team. The Wayman Tisdale Award winner as the National Freshman Player of the Year, Oklahomas聽Trae Young, is joined by fellow first-year phenoms聽Deandre Ayton聽of Arizona and Dukes聽Marvin Bagley III. A pair of guards who have each led their respective teams to No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament round out the first team 鈥撀燡alen Brunson聽of Villanova, the USBWAs District II Player of the Year, and聽Devont茅 Graham聽of Kansas, the District IV Player of the Year.Graham, the Big 12 Player of the Year, led Kansas to its 14th straight Big 12 Conference regular-season championship and the Big 12 Tournament title. He leads the team with 17.3 points and 7.5 assists per game. Brunson, the Big East Player stanley uk of the Year, led the defending national champions to a regular-season conference title and a No. 1 ranking for much of the season with 19.4 points per game.Ayton boosted surging Arizona to both Pac-12 Conference titles and earned the leagues player of the year honor. He is averaging 20.3 points and 11.5 rebounds per game. Bagley, despite stanley cup missing four games due to injury, earned ACC Player of the Year honors for his 21.1 points and 11.5 rebounds per game. Young is on pace to become the first player in college basketball history to lead the nation in scoring 27.4 ppg and assists stanley cup usa 8.8 apg .Earlier this month, Young was named the winner of the Wayman Tisdale Awa

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gzcm Dr. Cameron Webb to participate in Greene County RISE voting block party

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World-renowned blues musician and MacArthur genius grant recipient Corey Harris will appear at Court Square Theater Saturday, Dec. 4, kicking off the new Concerts in the Valley series.Tickets $25-advance, $30 at door are available at valleyarts.org/performances.Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for the 7 p.m. event.The performance begins with readings from Harriss new book, Bluespeople Illustrated: Legends of the Blues: Drawings, discographies and biographies of the 20th centurys greatest blues men and women. Written by a practicing African American blues musician, the book is a meticulously illustrated, in-depth biography of the greatest blues players of the 20th century.Harris will discuss details of his book and answer audience questions, before performing a one-set. The evening also serves as a CD-release party for Harriss Insurrection Blues. Several cuts from the new release will be featured. After intermission, Harris will be joined by his band to complete the musically-inspired evening, sponsored by Cross Keys Studio and Lee Associates.A guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and band leader, Harris began his career in New Orleans as a street singer. He has appeared across North Amer stanley cup ica, Europe, Brazil, The Caribbean, East and West Africa, Asia, A stanley italia ustralia and New Zeal stanley usa and. He has performed, recorded, and toured with an array of top artists, including BB King, Taj Mahal, Buddy Guy, R.L.Burnside, Ali Farka Toure, Dave Matthews Band, Tracy Chapman, Olu Dara, and Wilco.In 2007, Harr Mjdr Going green with acoustic guitars

The House of Delegates on Tuesday聽passed legislation to aid victims of assault and to protect students on college campuses.House Bill 1785, introduced by Del. Jimmie Massie R-Henrico , requires campus police to notify the local Commonwealths Attorney of a victim-initiated investigation within 48 hours. House Bill 1928, introduced by Del. Rob Bell R-Albemarle , adds certain additional violent misdemeanors to the state DNA database. House Bill 1930, also introduced by Del. Rob Bell, requires colleges to provide independent counseling services to victims and to inform them of all their legal options, requires mandatory reporting of sexual assaults w stanley deutschland here necessary to protect the health or safety of the public, and requires that all cases be confidentially reviewed by a team that includes law enforcement.Speaking about the campus safety legislation, Del. Jimmie Massie said, The legisl stanley kubek termiczny ation passed by the House today takes important steps to keep young men and women safe on our college campuses. House Bill 1785 will better coordinate campus investigations with local law enforcement. We listened to the concerns of victims advocates that mandatory reporting to the police could discourage students from reporting assaults. I believe this legislation strikes the right balance to improve the campus and law enforcement response without discouraging victims from coming forward. Del. Rob Bell said, House Bill 1928 adds certain stanley quencher violent and sexual crimes that have a high propensity of reci

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ogws 24 Oregon runs past UVA, 44-26

Bqng National Wildlife Federation Action Fund endorses State Sen. Emmett Hanger

Photo Credit: Kaesler MediaThe U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics July 2022 Jobs Openings and Labor Turnover Survey JOLTS for Virginia reveals the largest increase in hiring in the nation.Virginia job openings in July rose to 344,000 with 24,000 new hires.According to JOLTS data, the estimated number for July new hires was little changed in most states, but significantly increased in Virginia. JOLTS includes data for job openings, hires, layoffs, voluntary quits and other job separations such as retirement and death.Virginias July openings are a 14,000 increase from June 2022, and exceed the record 340,000 reached in March 2022. U.S. job openings changed little at 11.2 million in July.The job opening rate in Virginia for July was 7.8 percent, the same as in March, but lower than the highest of 7.9 percent in September 2021. The U.S. job openings rate w stanley vaso as little changed at 6.8 percent.Less than one unemployed worker was available per job opening in Virginia in July, which has remained steady for the previous few months, and the lowest rate since January 2001 when BLS began collecting data. The job seekers ratio peaked at 4.4 unemployed per job opening in February 2010 during the Great Recession, while the number of unemployed workers per job opening stood at 3.3 in April 2020 dur stanley cup ing the height of pandemic employment impacts due to COVID-19.The nations job openings rate was 4.5 percent in January 2 stanley spain 020, and was above 4 percent for more than 30 consecutive months. For 2018 and 201 Tkag Augusta County sheriff addresses controversy over retirement of K9 dog

Sons of Bill, a band described as too edgy for Nashville, but too earnest for New York, will perform Saturday, Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Blue Ridge Community College Fine Arts Center.Recently named the best band in Charlottesville for the third year in a row by C-ville Weekly readers, Sons of Bill draws comparisons to artists ranging from George Jones to the Gin Blossoms; Gram Parsons to Guns and Roses. Bill Wilsons three eldest sons grew up in central Virginia, listening to him fingerpick old country tunes around the house. They learned to sing harmony at family holidays and inherited old guitars with their hand-me-down jeans. The past two decades sent James, Sam and Abe in disparate musical directions: teenage heavy metal fests, old-time barn dances, college bars and New York City jazz clubs. But in 2005 the brothers all returned 鈥?one from a cattle ranch in Nevada, one from an apartment in Brooklyn, one from grad school in Maryland 鈥?and for the first time in their lives they began to make music together. With the addition of long-time friends Seth stanley germany Green on bass and Brian Caputo on drums, Bills sons became Sons of Bill.The groups live show evolves from acoustic ba stanley us llads into sweaty stage-dives, gaining Sons of Bill a loyal fan base from Florida to New York City. After selling their self-released debut a stanley deutschland lbum A Far Cry from Freedom by the thousands, SOB flew to California in late 2008 to record a much-anticipated follow up, One Town Away.Tickets $10-adult; $5-student a

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