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 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Nam nibh. Nunc varius facilisis eros. Sed erat. In in velit quis arcu ornare laoreet. Curabitur adipiscing luctus massa. Integer ut purus ac augue commodo commodo. Nunc nec mi eu justo tempor consectetuer. Etiam vitae nisl. In dignissim lacus ut http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45228&CHID=69 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45266&CHID=33 Thu, 04 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Page ’s postseason run came to an end in the Region B semifinals with a fast-paced 84-79 loss to third-seeded Altavista Thursday at Eastern Mennonite University’s Yoder Arena. The second-seeded Panthers, who won the Shenandoah District title and finished the season with a 21-2 record, could not overcome a hot-shooting perform http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45084&CHID=44 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - The inspiration to start an animal-transport service sprang from a simple question that popped into Brandon Howdyshell's mind one night. What would he do, he wondered while lying in bed, if his late grandfather's 165-pound Great Dane, Bo, had to be transported out of the house? http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45300&CHID=2 Mon, 08 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45192&CHID=33 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Lawrence D. Czarda, a 1974 graduate of Bridgewater College, was named president of Greensboro College in Greensboro, N.C., on Tuesday, following an eight-month nationwide search. He will begin his new role April 26, with a base salary of $198,000 per year. Czarda, who was selected from a pool of more than 100 applicants, is vice http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45282&CHID=11 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 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 How many of us would like to fire each and every official in Washington, D.C., and start new? They are destroying our country little by little, yet they go home with their enormous checks and don’t have a care in the world. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45234&CHID=62 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 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 The significance of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has been grossly exaggerated. As George F. Will of The Washington Post explained in his column (“Campaign Financ http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=44467&CHID=62 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, 04 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 ELKTON — They came, they saw and last week made their report on improving Elkton’s economic climate. The James Madison University team of public administration graduate students, who have held focus groups, tramped around town with pen and camera, and pored over town economic statistics for the past six months, had their data http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45086&CHID=44 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 I read about the appearance of Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi with great dismay (“Snooki Gets Big Turnout,” March 4). What is our city becoming when a bunch of over-tanned idiots are on such display? And I’m not just talkin http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45235&CHID=62 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45236&CHID=59 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - The case of a Fulks Run couple accused of killing a Hardy County, W.Va., family in October could land in federal court with Rockingham County Commonwealth's Attorney Marsha Garst serving as a special prosecutor, according to multiple sources close to the investigation. Sources say Garst could serve as a sp http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45290&CHID=1 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 HARRISONBURG - Harrisonburg police charged an Elkton man Tuesday for allegedly requesting and receiving nude photographs via his cell phone from a 15-year-old girl. In addition to the photographs, Craig Ramon Taylor II, 27, of 206 E. Rockingham St., is accused of sending inappropriate text messages to two teenag http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45286&CHID=2 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 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - The Rockingham County School Board voted to extend Superintendent Carol Fenn's contract by four years, members announced Tuesday night. Fenn's current four-year term doesn't end until 2011, but the new contract will take effect on July 1, and expire in 2014. The unanimous vote took place at the boa http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45288&CHID=2 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - City officials are working with the Harrisonburg Education Foundation to reschedule a planned 5K fundraiser to honor the late area educator Sherry Burcham Anderson. A downtown venue for the walk/run also is expected to change. The walk/run had been set for April 24, the date that a downtown bike ra http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45289&CHID=2 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. G.K. Chesterton My education was interrupted http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45267&CHID=36 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 With the appointment of Arne Duncan as education secretary, the Obama administration’s educational emphasis, so we thought, would be toward innovation. After all, Mr. Duncan established his “cred” in that arena as the c http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45268&CHID=36 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 Thu, 04 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 ELKTON — The unpleasant possibilities of cuts in Rockingham County school jobs and salaries and increases in class size were laid before an audience of teachers, parents and citizens Monday evening at Elkton Middle School. On a show of hands, about one-third of the roughly 75-person audience was teachers and another one-third were http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45085&CHID=44 Sat, 06 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45140&CHID=59 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 The natural gas extraction proposed in the Bergton area is a project with many possible liabilities, and minimal gain (“Drilling Proposal Hits Wall,” Feb. 26). Most of the profit will go to Texas, and all of the hardship will fall in http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=44825&CHID=62 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 I’m delighted to hear that the Harrisonburg City Council voted to endorse the DREAM Act, a federal bipartisan proposal that will give undocumented youth an opportunity to pursue higher education in the United States (“ http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=44870&CHID=62 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 A recent editorial suggests that President Obama’s effort to reform health care is just another case of unnecessary welfare that will reward people not willing to put forth the necessary effort to earn good insurance (“Why We Don’t Like This Health Bill,” Feb. 27). http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=44958&CHID=62 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - Former James Madison University defensive end J.D. Skolnitsky, cut last week by the Washington Redskins, was claimed off waivers Monday by the Indianapolis Colts. "Out of the blue," Skolnitsky said Tuesday, describing Indianapolis' interest in him. The 6-foot-6, 265-pound Fairfax native said the Re http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45240&CHID=3 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, 04 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 ELKTON — Town Manager Reid Wodicka has announced that the town has received a $13,656 grant from the Virginia Department of Forestry. The grant will serve several purposes, among them landscaping the new Elk Run Park near U.S. 340, tree planting, and taking another crack at removing the English ivy vine that has infested the bur oak on the http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45087&CHID=44 Fri, 05 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Did you know that Thomas Paine's classic, "The Rights of Man," was actually preceded and inspired by Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Man"? Yet which is the more famous? Just in recent years have I learned about Wollstonecraft's work. In high school, my teachers and textbooks presented me only with Paine's pivotal pi http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45098&CHID=27 Fri, 05 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 A New York Times best-selling children's author will make a pit stop in Harrisonburg later this month to promote her newest book. On March 16, Jan Brett, writer and illustrator of "The Easter Egg," will visit Books-a-Million in the Valley Mall from 5 to 7 p.m. She will sign 275 books, teach the children to draw a bunny and give away post http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45100&CHID=41 Sat, 06 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600  The following property transfers, for at least $150,000 each, were recorded Feb. 24-March 2. Harrisonburg Feb. 24David L. and Shirley A. Proffitt, to Paul and Erika L. Mabrey III, 475 Eastover Drive, $233,100. Feb. 26James Madison University Real Estate Foundation, Inc. to Qingjiu Tao and Wei Kang, lot 5 http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45122&CHID=45 Sat, 06 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 The following building permits, for at least $100,000 each, were recorded Feb. 24-March 2. Rockingham County Feb. 25Madison Builders, Inc., two story four-bedroom single-family dwelling, 155 Rachel Drive, Penn Laird, $180,000.March 1Elliott Diamond, finishing garage and adding an apartment to an existing home, 5 http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45123&CHID=45 Sat, 06 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 WASHINGTON SO THE YEARLONG production, set to close after Massachusetts’ devastatingly negative Jan. 19 review, saw the cu http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45128&CHID=59 Sat, 06 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 BILL GATES IS the world’s richest person, but what kind of power does he have over you? Can he force your kid to go to a school you do not want him to attend? Can he deny you the right to braid hair in your home for a living? It turns out that a local politician, who mi http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45129&CHID=59 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Golf is a game in which you yell fore, shoot six, and write down five. Paul Harvey Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons a http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45226&CHID=36 Sat, 06 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG — A doomed girl’s battered suitcase is the focus of a poignant film that an area synagogue will show this weekend. The movie, “Inside Hana’s Suitcase,” tells the story of an old suitcase, sent from the Auschwitz Museum to the Tokyo Holocaust Museum, and the curator’s q http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45135&CHID=14 Sat, 06 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 SATURDAY »BRIERY BRANCH CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN, 6628 Briery Branch Road, Dayton, will hold an auction at 10 a.m. in the church activities building. Proceeds will benefit the building/remodeling fund. Items for sale include a copper kettle, antique children’s chairs from the old church, VT corn hole game, http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45136&CHID=14 Sat, 06 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 WASHINGTON So the yearlong production, set to close after Massachusetts’ devastatingly negative Jan. 19 review, saw the curtain raised one last time. Obamacare lives.After 34 speeches, three sharp electoral rebukes (Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts) and a seven-hour seminar, the president anno http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45141&CHID=59 Sat, 06 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Zumba - with its Latin-inspired dances and upbeat rhythms - is one of the biggest fitness crazes around. But what happens if you're not quite up to it? There's a new class, Zumba Gold, that takes the core moves and music of Zumba and makes it accessible to seniors, overweight or out of shape people and those that are disabled by slowing http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45147&CHID=37 Sat, 06 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 "Oh, Lord, it's hard to be humble, to be perfect in every way," goes the delightful ditty by Tom T. Hall. Tom probably wasn't aware when he wrote and performed this homage to false humility that he echoed somewhat Jesus' warning not to perform perceived acts of piety to gain others' approval. Dust off that Bible and check out the cl http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45146&CHID=28 Sun, 07 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 BY JOHN B. REEVES SR. YOUR RECENT EDITORIAL on global warming is cut and paste garbage and distortions from special, powerful interests (“ http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45173&CHID=32 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 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.Pope John Paul II http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45194&CHID=36 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 In assessing Gov. McDonnell’s first two months in office, a common lament has been that the state’s new Republican chief executive has not exercised visible leadership, that he has not stepped, chest out, to the front of the parade and strutted his stuff. This newspaper was among http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45195&CHID=36 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 Mon, 08 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 THE WHITE HOUSE took great offense this week when conservatives suggested President Obama might be trading a judicial appointment for a wavering Democrat’s vote on his health care reform plan. “Absurd,” a miffed administration official told Politico.com. Whe http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45203&CHID=59 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 You know what Tennyson said about “a young man’s fancy” in springtime turning to “thoughts of love?” Well, come March, these “fancies” — for men, old as well as young (and women, too) — hav http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45227&CHID=36 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 About a month ago in my ecology class, the subject of a report on the dairy industry came up. The report stated that tails are being docked so that they won’t interfere with milking machines and animals are treated as little more than milk-producing machines. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45271&CHID=62 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 When I was 8 or 9 years old, I threw snowballs at passing cars. But I was smart enough not to throw at the police or someone helping us, like a snowplow driver. The end result was first that mother spanked me and lectured me. And then of course I had to deal with father, who skipped the lectu http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45272&CHID=62 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 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - The Rockingham County Sheriff's Office was notified Wednesday that it's been awarded a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Administered through the State Homeland Security Program, the local funding is part of $4.9 million being distributed to 45 law enforcement agencies throughou http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45291&CHID=2 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - A bill that allows treasurer and commissioner of the revenue offices to use voter registration lists to help with tax collection passed the General Assembly on Wednesday. The House of Delegates approved the bill by a vote of 81-15. Sen. Mark Obenshain, R-Harrisonburg, introduced the legislation at http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45292&CHID=2 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - Virginia's sheriffs, anticipating major cuts in state funding, have been prepared to do their jobs with significantly fewer deputies as a result of former Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's outgoing budget proposal. But Kaine's successor, Gov. Bob McDonnell, asked in his revised bud http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45293&CHID=1 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - The number of Alzheimer's patients in Virginia has increased 30 percent in the past 10 years, according to a study released Tuesday by the Alzheimer's Association. There are about 130,000 patients with the memory-loss disease in the commonwealth today, up from 100,000 in 2000, according to the report. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45294&CHID=1 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 RICHMOND - Heading into Wednesday's Group AA, Division 4 state semifinal game against defending champion Courtland High School, the Broadway boys' basketball team knew it would be a classic underdog. Not a problem. BHS struck a minute into the game on a 3-pointer by junior guard Chris Knight to take a lead it wou http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45295&CHID=20 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 RICHMOND - Chris Dodson and his Spotswood High School girls' basketball players were in attendance Tuesday at the Siegel Center, and they watched two of their fellow Massanutten District teams lose after struggling to score. When the Trailblazers finally got their turn on the floor, they had no such trouble. Spot http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45296&CHID=20 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - Leonard Dow knows all the stereotypes that surround the Mennonite religion. From horse-and-buggies to wearing long pants to being soft pacifists. Through basketball, Dow - the all-time leading scorer in Eastern Mennonite University history and now a Mennonite pastor in Philadelphia - believes misconceptions can be http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45297&CHID=3 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - Elena Delle Donne said she didn't know she was going to be named the Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Year before her name was called Wednesday night at the league's awards banquet. Well, not quite, anyway. She didn't know until she was told to hang around the stage at James Madison Univ http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45298&CHID=3 Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Dukes Split In Softball  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Left fielder Jasmine Donaldson had an RBI double in the sixth inning to lead Florida A&M to a come-from-behind win over James Madison in a non-conference softball game Wednesday - the second game of a doublehea http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45299&CHID=46