Top News http://www.dnronline.com/rss_new.php en-us Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 As last week’s informational meeting stretched into the night, three members of the Page County Board of Supervisors ended the discussion by voicing their opinions against a possible power plant fueled by chicken litter. After going through a company presentation and 83 questions collected from the public and the board, supervisors http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45274&CHID=42 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 NEW MARKET – While the economy has seemed to do nothing but go down in recent months, things are looking good in New Market. Just in the last six months, the southern Shenandoah County town has seen four new businesses and may have another moving in soon. “I think people see a lot of good opportunities for business here,&rdqu http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45229&CHID=43 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Frank Sampson, Elkton Middle School’s band teacher since last fall and a graduate of Page County High School and James Madison University, is glad to be back in his home area. And he’s glad to be teaching music to young people. “The best thing about teaching band is helping students ‘get it,’” http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45304&CHID=44 Fri, 12 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Ten Bridgewater College students are re-establishing the college’s children’s theater program with a production of “Act Out.” The actors, who are part of BC’s Pinion Players, adapted “Act Out” from the children’s books “The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo,” by Judy Bloom, http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45127&CHID=66 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Faye V. CollinsFaye Virginia Collins, 61, of Dayton, passed away March 1, 2010, at Bridgewater Home. She worked at Woody’s Restaurant for 27 years before going to the Bridgewater Home, where she had worked for the last four years. She was a member of Summit Church of the Brethren. She was united in marriage on May 10, 1974, to http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45093&CHID=66 Fri, 12 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 GROTTOES — For Grottoes resident Ashley Foster, staying informed about Operation Moshtarak, the largest offensive in Afghanistan since 2001, has its pros and cons. Foster’s husband, Lance Corporal Kyle Foster, United States Marine Corps, is participating in the surge.“They tell you to stay away from the news, but I can&rs http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45125&CHID=66 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 The town of Woodstock will see more than half of its council members, including the mayor, say goodbye this May. With four seats up for re-election, none of the incumbents will be running. Following Mayor Bill Moyers’ decision to step down, Councilmen Bill Pence, Arthur White and Alma Hottle have all announced their decisions as we http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45233&CHID=43 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 LURAY, March 8 — As legislators continue to hammer out a final version of the state budget in Richmond, Page County Public Schools could see even more reductions in funding in what has already become already a contentious cycle. The schools' Director of Finance Barbie Stombock said as much when she presented the Page County School http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45275&CHID=42 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG — A woman being sought by local authorities for nearly 10 years is behind bars in Texas on charges related to the abduction of her son. Tammy Renee Lucas, 43, formerly of Elkton, was arrested Friday evening by officers with the Texas Rangers, officials with the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office said Monday. Lu http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45276&CHID=42 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 For one group of residents in Page County, the goal is for the county get a new economic development director. Remaining anonymous, a group under the name Page County Proud put up a Web site last week that is pushing for the county to “Dump Tom Cardman.”Using a photoshopped picture of Cardman as a card dealer, the http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45277&CHID=42 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 RICHMOND, Feb. 25 — Proponents of a regional lockup serving Warren, Shenandoah and Rappahannock counties may have hit a speed bump in what has already been a lengthy process. Last Thursday, the Virginia House of Delegates passed its version of the biennial state budget without guaranteed funding for the project. In the past, the st http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45232&CHID=43 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 With the OASIS Gallery "busting at the seams," officials say this year's arts gala is more important than ever. On March 20, OASIS will host the second annual fundraiser at 7 p.m. The event, called "Our Local Feast," benefits the group's operating budget. "This gala is not about how much money we can make, it's about what we can http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45283&CHID=5 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Dr. Laura Mann will present "Operatunity," an evening of opera and musical theater scenes, at 7:30 p.m. on March 26 at Blue Ridge Community College's Fine Arts Center. Mann has sung more than 40 opera and operetta roles in productions in the U.S. and Europe. The scope of her work includes world premieres of stage works for solo voice by http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45285&CHID=5 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Clay artist Marti Mocahbee and glass artist/sculptor Phillip Nolley, both from Staunton, will exhibit "Mocahbee/Nolley: Excavating Our Visual Experience" from March 15-April 9 in the Cleo Driver Miller Art Gallery at Bridgewater College. Mocahbee started working with clay as a teenager. Her pieces are wheel-thrown of red clay and hand-pa http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45287&CHID=5 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 A Woodstock man pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual battery on Feb. 17 after assaulting and impregnating a 12-year-old girl. Juan Ramos-Vargas, 27, of 118 S. Main St., was indicted by the Shenandoah County Circuit Court in January following a November investigation. Sheriff's office investigator George Poe was asked to look over a report http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45230&CHID=43 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 The California truck driver charged in January with two counts of involuntary manslaughter will appear in Shenandoah General District Court on March 16. According to court documents, Pawandeep Singh, 22, of Sacramento, Calif., was arrested on Feb. 19, on charges stemming from a fatal crash that claimed the lives of brothers Stone Weeks, http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45231&CHID=43 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 In 2007, the General Assembly passed legislation that greatly reduced the ability of the State Corporation Commission to set just and reasonable electric rates. The result has been higher rates for electric customers than w http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=44969&CHID=62 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Eugene Buie seems to believe that there are two kinds of arguments: those that are valid and those that are “progressive” (“No Ambiguity In Biblical Writings,” March 1).Welcome to the Twilight Zone folks, where progress is a bad http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45002&CHID=62 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 From the looks of it, Dorothy Bankard's living room isn't that much different from any other grandmother's. A plaid couch sits against the wall near an old rocking chair, a television sits in the corner. And of course, pictures of her nine grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and three great-great-granchildren are displayed on the walls http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45278&CHID=42 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 NEW MARKET - Matt Hughes had his work cut out for him when he took over as chief of the New Market Volunteer Fire Department a year and a half ago. Hughes was assistant fire chief at the time a half-dozen high-ranking members - including the chief at the time - were accused in November 2008 of embezzling department funds. No criminal cha http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45280&CHID=65 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 NEW MARKET - Crystal Fleming hopes area farmers can one day find relief from the vagaries of the agricultural markets in the empty lot next to her women's clothing store. Owner of Casual Friday on U.S. 211, Fleming is in the early stages of establishing a locally grown food market. "We've got some really great things going on," s http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45279&CHID=65 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 A local woman missing for nearly ten years and being sought on child abduction charges has been located in Cleveland, Texas, according to the Texas State Child Protective Services Office in Austin and local authorities. Tammy Renee Lucas, 43, formerly of Elkton, was arrested Friday by officers from the Texas Rangers, according to the Roc http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45305&CHID=44 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Getting pain pills from a doctor or dentist or a pharmacy is an old practice. But there is a twist — asking for pills when the “patient” suffers not from pain but from a drug habit. It’s a growing phenomenon, encouraged by advances in the variety and potency of painkilling medications. It has happened to E http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45306&CHID=44 Fri, 12 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG—When Gene White learned her sight was deteriorating in early 1990s, she went through a period of grief. She had watched her mother and her aunt lose their sight completely because of macular degeneration—“it’s all over my family,” she says—but that experience didn’t prepare her for the daily http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45337&CHID=66 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 President Obama, aided and abetted by a number of fawning media outlets, has done his darnedest to portray Republicans as the “Party of No,” hide-bound obstructionists out to derail his health-care ini http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45334&CHID=36 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Starting later this morning, hundreds of cars from Rockingham County will make their way to the Siegel Center in Richmond to cheer on two area high school basketball teams as they make their bids for a State Championship. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45335&CHID=36 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 NEW MARKET - On Friday nights in New Market, the Shenandoah Valley Banjo & Fiddle Club and its free shows attract folks from throughout the region to the New Market Community Center. But the band's not the only one packing them in at the center. The former school can accommodate a wide range of activities, concerts, plays and http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45269&CHID=65 Mon, 08 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Daily News-Record cartoonist John Rose draws the cartoon, but you write the caption. Make us laugh, keep it clean (this is a family paper), and keep it brief (brevity is the soul of wit). Mail the caption, along with the cartoon and your full name and city where you http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45201&CHID=60 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Several "Double Click" readers have written and asked why I have not mentioned Microsoft Windows 7 very often. The answer is that there are about 50 bazillion other geeks out there who have written about it relentlessly since it rolled out last October. I figured I would let the clamor die down some before I started. Today, I am coming o http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45213&CHID=21 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Looking at the pieces of art hanging on the walls, it's hard to imagine such intricately designed works have a practical purpose. But these beautiful pieces, saturated with vivid hues and delicate florals, fruits and geometric patterns, celebrate an American folk art called fraktur, which was used to decorate rugs, trivets and table runners and http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45216&CHID=41 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 We are having spring-like days and the temperature is warmer than 50 degrees. The warmth along with the sunshine sure gives a person spring fever. We have been taking advantage of the nice days. On Saturday, we washed the curtains and daughter Elizabeth, 15, cleaned all the windows. The laundry smelled so fresh from being dried outside. The wind http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45261&CHID=24 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Even if you are not an experienced bread baker, this recipe is an easy one that is quite tasty and may actually encourage you to try baking bread. It is just the right accompaniment to a dish of pasta served with a nice tossed garden salad. It is one of those "try it and you will like it" dishes! This dough may also be used for a pizza crust.&nb http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45262&CHID=26 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 It has been a while since I paid attention to the Pillsbury Bake-Off, the gigantic cooking competition that has would-be millionaires stirring up unlikely concoctions in their home kitchens for a chance at fame and fortune. The finals for the latest contest will be in Orlando in early April, and 100 people will work side-by-side in their separat http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45263&CHID=29 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Consider the pancake. A subtly sweet treat, the pancake is virtually an idiot-proof food. Simple ingredients such as flour, sweetener, baking powder, baking soda, milk and egg, a few minutes on a hot griddle, a flip with a spatula, and it's done - making it the go-to breakfast dish. There are even baking mixes for people who think they don't hav http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45264&CHID=40 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 BY MIKE SMITH ON JAN. 27, county staff gave the Rockingham County Board of Supervisors a draft of a new zoning ordinance, which, if approved, would give a special use permit to two wind comp http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45273&CHID=32 Fri, 12 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 This is how winter ends. (I wonder if this was a historical winter, if there ever was a winter in the Shenandoah Valley where snow lay on the ground throughout the whole season?) We started collecting sap from our maple trees in the snow. Indeed, the husband plowed a path three weeks ago from tree to tree, through two feet of sno http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45312&CHID=27 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 By Kathleen Parker WASHINGTON SKIPPING THROUGH THE C http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45313&CHID=59 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 MOST POLITICIANS, AND probably most Americans, see health care as a right. Thus, whether a person has the means to pay for medical services or not, he is nonetheless entitled to them. Let’s ask ourselves a few questions about this vision. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45315&CHID=59 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 HAVE YOU NOTICED something about the audiences that President Obama has cherry-picked to cheer his gov-ernment health care takeover roadshow? They’re getting younger and younger. On Wednesday, Obama b http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45316&CHID=59 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 WASHINGTON THERE IS A pathetic quality to our discussion of deficits and fiscal responsibility because we never face up to how much we need http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45317&CHID=59 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45333&CHID=33 Fri, 12 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45332&CHID=33 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. Jane Austen http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45341&CHID=59 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.Geo http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45342&CHID=36 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 This latest deadline — or, more specifically, the most recent latest deadline — for a final congressional vote on health-care “reform” says it all. The Democratic leadership wanted definitive legisla http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45343&CHID=36 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45344&CHID=59 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Benjamin McLeod is confused about the $300,000 salary of Dr. Cornelius (“Bridgewater College Needs Diversity,” Feb. 13).That is the salary of Dr. Phil Stone, the present president. In no college communication we received is Dr. Cornelius&rs http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45345&CHID=62 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 I found a line in a recent article about historic re-enactments extremely offensive (“Re-Enactors Bring Tubman, Simms Together,” March 8): Ms. Bowser wrote, “Lucy F. Simms ... was a slave owned by Harrisonburg’s Robert Gray family.” One human being cannot own another. One might hold other people in captivity http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45346&CHID=62 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 In response to your embarrassing editorial about global warming, please advise readers to look at www.climate.gov for accurate information about global climate change (“Settled Science,” Feb. 2 http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45347&CHID=62 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 All nations use myths and legend for sustenance. Some tales are based on fact, others are self-serving contrivances. However, when myth and legend demand a racial, ethnic or religious purity to the exclusion of others — so that some prophecy can be fulfilled or some national goal achieved — reason and justice can give way to extremis http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45348&CHID=62 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600  The following property transfers, for at least $150,000 each, were recorded March 3-11. Harrisonburg March 3Toni H. Stone to Erin M. Moore, Lot 22 in Stonewall Heights Subdivision, $154,500.John C. and Margaret W. Howland and Bradley W. Howland to Keith M. and Jeanette C. Davison, 1432 Devon Lane, $160,000. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45350&CHID=45 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 The following building permits, for at least $100,000 each, were recorded March 3-9. Rockingham County March 8Gary E. and Janet M. Wood, demolish and replace a poultry house due to snow damage, 3319 Beldor Road, Elkton, $210,000 March 9Great Eastern Resort Corporation, for the construction of five, one-story, http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45351&CHID=45 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Editor's Note: The following is part of an occasional series of columns by 29-year-old DN-R staff writer Heather Bowser, who, during the next year, will complete 30 adventures before her 30th birthday in November. Three. More. Days! By the time this column reaches your doorstep - or computer screen - it will be three days until t http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45352&CHID=37 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG — One of the most challenging responsibilities for today’s clergy has little to do with preparing sermons. Helping families of people with Alzheimer’s and other diseases cope with and care for afflicted loved ones has become an increasingly common task. And with the number of Alzheimer& http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45353&CHID=14 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 SATURDAY »ASBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 205 S. Main St., will hold a book sale bo-nanza, featuring a large selection of books, CDs, movies, board games and more, from 8 a.m.-2 p.m.. Everything costs $1. Children’s books start at 50 cents. 434-2836. »BETHEL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL C http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45354&CHID=14 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 On Feb. 13, Isaac Shickel bowed his head as his scoutmaster slipped a red, white and blue ribbon around his neck.                            He was officially an Eagle Scout. Nearby, stood Shickel http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45355&CHID=37 Sat, 13 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Can anything good come from Nazareth? A rhetorical question? Not really. In John 1:46, Nathaniel made that inquiry, and Jesus' disciple Philip answered, "Come and see ..." Since 2000, people have come to the heart of Nazareth, Israel, traveling back in time to the very place where Jesus walked, talked, healed and changed http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45356&CHID=28 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 Recently I received a letter from the Census Bureau. It was just one page, several sentences long, giving me a heads-up that my Census form would be coming in about a week. All I could do was laugh, even though it was really not that funny. This is the best use of the taxes we send to Washington: a letter to tell me a letter is coming? I http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45383&CHID=62 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 I cannot believe that more than a year after President Obama took office people are still ragging him. They should give him and their fingers a break. I am sure their brains, if they have any (which I doubt) and fingers get http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45384&CHID=62 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 Thank you for reporting on the recent crime forum (“Rethinking Crime And Punishment,” Feb. 23). Professor Zehr said a key to finding a bett http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45385&CHID=62 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 What could be the mentality of the ones who predicted a seven-foot wave, beginning in Chili, would travel 2,000 miles to Hawaii, and still be seven feet high? One answer could be that they are of the same caliber as the ones that predicted global warming. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45386&CHID=62 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 Alas, Ms. Pyle, there will be no editorial railing against “freeloading” pedestrians (“Stop Those Freeloading Walkers,” Feb. 2). Apples are not oranges, and legs, unlike bikes, are not vehicles. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45387&CHID=62 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 BY RITA DUNAWAY ABORTION DOES NOTHING less than terminate the life of a distinct, living human being.  That is the difficulty with Kristin Reid’s suggestion that the right re http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45388&CHID=32 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 HARRISONBURG - Home sales in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County could stabilize in 2010 after a sharp four-year decline. Scott Rogers, associate broker at Coldwell Banker Funkhouser Realtors, said he expects the sales pace for this year to be within 5 percent of last year's numbers. The city and county witnessed http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45389&CHID=1 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 HARRISONBURG - At the beginning of his freshman year at James Madison University, Bryan Brady repeatedly heard that more than 300 clubs found a home at the university. So, one day he went to a club fair to see if any of the scores of organizations caught his eye, and before long he was a member of the university's archer http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45390&CHID=1 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 Staff And Wire Reports RICHMOND - Gov. Bob McDonnell has requested federal disaster assistance for the state and several localities hit hard by two winter storms last month. McDonnell is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency to pa http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45391&CHID=1 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 HARRISONBURG - As the final minute slipped off the Convocation Center clock, 3,383 people - all standing and overwhelmingly clad in purple - got louder and louder, and the smiles of James Madison's players and coaches stretched wider and wider until all anticipation boiled over when time expired. The crowd, the players, http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45392&CHID=3 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 GREENSBORO, N.C. - With 4:58 to go in Saturday's game, George Johnson glanced up at the clock during a stoppage. His expression never changed, but inside he had to know. Eastern Mennonite University trailed 84-68 and its remarkable run to and through the NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament was over, squelched by a near http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45393&CHID=3 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 RICHMOND - 31 seconds. That's how far the Broadway Gobblers were from being state champions. The Gobblers held a two-point lead in the final half-minute of regulation, but crucial turnovers then and in two overtime periods cost them, as Potomac Falls picked up a 69-64 double-OT victory in the Group AA, Division 4 http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45394&CHID=20 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 RICHMOND - For almost four minutes, it was close. Spotswood High School hung with defending Division 3 champion Freedom, the South Riding school with two Division I signees and more length and height than the Trailblazers had seen all season. But at the 3:52 mark, the Eagles broke a 6-6 tie and that was the end o http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45395&CHID=20 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 RICHMOND - A few days after one of its most efficient offensive performances of the year, the Spotswood High School girls' basketball team struggled to put the ball in the basket at the worst possible time. The Trailblazers shot just 27 percent from the field and failed to find any kind of offensive rhythm against a tall http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45396&CHID=20 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 RICHMOND - Dwight Walton kept it together during the game, and he kept it together during the post-game press conference. But alone, in a fluorescent corridor underneath the Siegel Center sometime after midnight on Sunday morning, the Broadway High School boys' basketball coach finally let his emotions slip. His team - t http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45397&CHID=20 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 Today's Schedules  BASEBALL High School Spotswood at Sherando, 5 p.m. SOCCER High School Boys Sherando at Spotswood, 7 p.m. High School Girls Spotswood at Sherando, 7 p.m. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45398&CHID=46 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 HARRISONBURG - Seated at a table in James Madison University's Festival Center, Sean McCormally looked at his friends and grinned. "I expect to die very quickly," he said. Normally, such words would be cause for alarm, but the five people seated by McCormally understood. They'd probably die tonight, too. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45399&CHID=2 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 HARRISONBURG - The Rockingham County Board of Supervisors have honored a retiring college president and an agriculture guru for their respective work in the community. Bridgewater College President Phillip Stone and Charles Wampler Jr. were recognized at the board's meeting Wednesday. Supervisors passed resolutio http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45400&CHID=2 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 BRIDGEWATER - The town's fiscal 2011 budget is "kind of a boring one" if you ask the chairman of the Bridgewater Finance Committee. "There's not a lot going on," Town Councilman Ted Flory said. Next year's spending plan, which goes into effect July 1, is shaping up to be 15 percent smaller than the current budget http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45401&CHID=2 Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500 HARRISONBURG - For Michael Schweigert, Saturday morning's Rockingham Memorial Hospital Home and Farm Safety Day at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds was a chance to learn the safety skills he needs to get some added responsibility around the home. And he's eager to get the chance to start mowing the grass. "Safet http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45402&CHID=2