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VIMS report: Economic impact of boats in Virginia is $1.1 billion
As Gloucester eyes nearly tripling the boat tax in the next budget year, a 2012 Virginia Institute of Marine Science report offers some insight into the economic effects boats have on the economy. The report, authored by VIMS Prof. Tom Murray, was...
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Wednesday's 3/20 local schedule (updated Wednesday AM with makeup high school baseball and softball)
COLLEGES Baseball Apprentice at Salisbury, 2 p.m. Longwood at William and Mary, 7 Softball Christopher Newport at N.C. Wesleyan (doubleheader), 3 Virginia Wesleyan at Sweet Briar (doubleheader), 3 Women’s lacrosse Maryland at William and Mary, 4...Tags: Poquoson (Poquoson, Virginia), Denbigh, Phoebus (Hampton, Virginia), New Kent (Quinton, Virginia), College of William and Mary
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Saturday's college multi-sport roundup: Apprentice takes ninth at wrestling nationals
Daily PressIan Jones placed third at 285 pounds and Lafayette High graduate Kyle Spruill placed fifth at 149, leading Apprentice to ninth place among 30 men’s Division I teams at the National Collegiate Wrestling Association championships in Allen, Texas....Tags: Ohio State Buckeyes, College of William and Mary, Gymnastics, College Sports, Virginia Cavaliers
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Sequestration would reach far into the Virginia Peninsula community - and affect health services
Like a victim tied to buzz saw table in an old movie melodrama, federal, state and local agencies and departments, and a host of businesses and nonprofit organizations are watching with alarm as budget blades churn toward them. On Friday automatic...
Tags: Libraries, Shipbuilding, Companies and Corporations, National Government, U.S. Congress
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Country store records depict rural life
Day after day for more than 20 years, the dutiful clerks at historic Ware Neck Store saved virtually every scrap of paper that passed through their hands as they conducted business. Thousands of receipts, bills, advertisements and customer shopping...
Tags: Human Interest, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia)
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In 1800s Williamsburg, 'Cheap Store' made black merchant rich
Like many other small towns across the rural South, Williamsburg spent most of the late 1800s struggling to recover from the catastrophic effects of the Civil War. Abandoned by many of its residents after Federal troops occupied the area in May 1862,...
Tags: Kale, Business, Real Estate Buyers, Virginia State University, Harvard Medical School
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Wednesday's 1/30 local schedule (updated Tuesday AM)
COLLEGES Men’s basketball William and Mary at Delaware, 7 Towson at Old Dominion, 7 Hampton at S.C. State, 7:30 Randolph-Macon at Virginia Wesleyan, 8 Women’s basketball Randolph-Macon at Virginia Wesleyan, 6 HIGH SCHOOLS Boys basketball...Tags: Poquoson (Poquoson, Virginia), Phoebus (Hampton, Virginia), Smithfield, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia)
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Black history in Gloucester: From slave child to folk hero
Thomas Calhoun Walker was too young to know the difference when the Civil War brought him freedom. But even as an illiterate kid growing up in rural Gloucester during the 1870s, he knew his elders' annual readings of the Emancipation Proclamation at the...
Tags: Human Interest, Gloucester Point, Gloucester County, Teachers, Separation of Church and State
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Daily Press Internship Programs
The Program The Daily Press offers a paid summer internship program. Internships may be filled in any newsroom function: local news, sports, features, copy desk, online/digital, editing, photo or graphics. You'll be assigned real work: Reporting,...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Poquoson (Poquoson, Virginia), College Baseball, Education, Christopher Newport University
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Saturday's 1/26 local schedule (updated Friday PM)
Note: Many events, especially in high school, may be rescheduled or even canceled because of weather. COLLEGES Men’s basketball Apprentice at Southern Virginia, 2 Virginia Wesleyan at Washington and Lee, 2 Old Dominion at James Madison, 4 Methodist...Tags: Phoebus (Hampton, Virginia), Denbigh, Virginia Cavaliers, Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia), Tabb
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GHS senior Kayne Boyer earns regional B&G Club award
Kudos to Gloucester High School senior Kane Boyer who earned the Boys & Girls Club of the Virginia Peninsula 2013 Youth of the Year award earlier this month. Boyer received the award at the group's annual board meeting. Boyer has been a member of the...
Tags: Cal Ripken, Education, College Baseball
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VIMS hosts talk Thursday on how Virginia can respond to coastal flooding
Researcher Molly Mitchell will discuss on Thursday recommendations on responding to coastal flooding at the year's first "After Hours" lecture series at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Mitchell was the lead author of a recent report that...
Tags: Gloucester Point
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