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Local jazz band gears up for Russian festival
A Frederick County jazz band will soon go from local venues to an international stage.
Opinion: Promote Environmental Awareness in Students
USA TODAY''s article "Campuses moving to eject cars" explores efforts to make high school and college campuses less car-friendly and more environmentally responsible.
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Susan Harvey To Lead Rockbridge Youth Chorale
Susan Harvey has been named the new artistic director for the Rockbridge Youth Chorale.
When The Cadets Come Marching In
Col. Rick Zinser, USA , the president of Massanutten Military Academy is excited about the largest group of cadets who just graduated from MMA's summer program, and about the 210 cadets who will be making their ...
Ex-Redskins lineman Jacoby joins Shenandoah staff
Former Washington Redskins offensive lineman Joe Jacoby has joined the Shenandoah University football staff as a volunteer assistant coach.
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Glidewell-Alvir win by a whisker
Estimates vary on how much more air Thiago Barbosa needed on his drop volley late in the third set of Sunday's Fauquier County Tennis Championships men's "A" doubles final in Warrenton.
After overseeing growth in student enrollment and the addition of several campus buildings, Kenneth Hoyt said Thursday he is stepping down as president of Centenary College at year's end.
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Tuyet Mai Houston Inducted into Cambridge Who's Who Executive,...
Miss Houston has honed her expertise in emergency care. Her responsibilities as a physician assistant include offering first aid for lacerations, sprains, fractures, eye injuries, conjunctivitis, chest and ...
Gov's Academy To Begin At Monroe Center
The Virginia Board of Education has approved plans to establish a Governor's Career and Technical Academy program at Monroe Technology Center in Leesburg.
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Raggedy Cats In Concert Saturday
PERFORMING a free concert on Saturday night from 5-7 p.m. at the Kinder Halle on Marktplatz will be The Raggedy Cats.
With art under Encore 4: Submitted photo - Cockpit in Court presents...
With art under Encore 4: Submitted photo - Cockpit in Court presents "Urinetown: The Musical" Friday through Sunday.
Personalizing Cardiac Medicine
Improving patient care by "personalizing" the practice of medicine often results from studying specific drugs and their impact of genetic biomarkers.
The Pinball Wizard plays again
At first glance, Alex Sheets might pass for an orderly at a mental hospital. Dressed in neck-to-toe white - T-shirt, pants and a studded belt - the 20-year-old could hardly contain his pleasure at playing the ...
ShenanArts Presents Rock-Opera
ShenanArts presents the rock musical, "The Who's Tommy," Aug. 1-3 and 8-10 at its Stage4 Theatre in Verona.
ShenanArts Presents Rock-Opera
ShenanArts presents the rock musical, "The Who's Tommy," Aug. 1-3 and 8-10 at its Stage4 Theatre in Verona.
After 42 years, Totem Pole revives the play, "Bell, Book and Candle." Beautiful Gillian Holroyd of the Murray Hill district in New York City casts a spell over Shepherd Henderson, a handsome and unattached ...
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Hooked on Hoover's Shenandoah Retreat
To capture the essence of Rapidan Camp, the summer home of President Herbert Hoover in what is now Virginia's Shenandoah National Park, stand on the back deck of his cabin and just listen.
Hear the breezes rustle through the thick forest, the gentle sounds of mountain streams. Hoover and his wife chose the site, at the confluence of the Mill Prong and Laurel Prong, partly because it afforded excellent trout fishing, which the president loved, but also because of its ambiance.
As Lou Henry Hoover wrote to a friend in January 1929, shortly before becoming first lady: 'My husband's idea was to have a camp down on one of the tree-covered flats beside a stream or at the junction between two streams. He likes to be near enough to hear the water murmuring.'
New principal arrives to school 'un.....
When John Mihalyo arrived at Weirton Madonna High School to take over the position of principal, he was greeted by a cluster of construction workers and surrounded by scaffolding.
Those fashion designers on Bravo's 'Project Runway' competition might have it pretty rough.
The investigation into a beating death in Schuylkill County continues. Late Tuesday afternoon the coroner ruled the death a homicide.