THE primary elections to choose candidates for the governorship will take place Saturday, May 14. That's an unusual event for West Virginia voters, and it could hold down turnout.
CHARLOTTESVILLE | Virginia will retire Anthony Poindexter's No. 3 jersey in a ceremony Saturday before the Cavaliers play Indiana. The hard-hitting safety was in on perhaps the most famous tackle in the school's football history. Poindexter and Adrian Burnim stopped Florida State's Warrick Dunn inches from the goal line in a 1995 U.Va. victory.
VIENNA -- Voters head to the polls Friday to elect town officers before gathering Saturday for the annual town meeting. The polls will be open from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Community Building, said Dodi Thompson, first selectman. Voters will elect town officials with no other questions on the ballot.
MILFORD -- Gentlemen, start your sand shovels. The Milford Fine Arts Council's 33rd annual Great American Sand Sculpture Competition is set for Saturday at Walnut Beach. Registration opens at 12:30 p.m., with sand building from 1 to 4 and judging from 4 to 5. There's a $5 beach parking fee for nonresidents. Rain date is Sunday (with the hours for registration and competition one hour later due to the tide). For more information, call (203) 878-6647 or visit www.milfordcarts.org. Pousette-Dart at The Kate in Old Saybrook OLD SAYBROOK -- The Pousette-Dart Band, featuring music vet Jon Pousette-Dart on guitars and vocals, makes its way to the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center for a show at 8 p.m. Sunday. The band will play songs from throughout Pousette-Dart's long career -- including...
TAMPA, Fla. - Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman whose boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean made him a pop-culture icon, has died. He was 50. Tampa police said Mays' wife found him unresponsive Sunday morning. A fire rescue crew pronounced him dead at 7:45 a.m. It was not immediately clear how he died. He said he was hit on the head when an airplane he was on made a rough landing Saturday, and his wife, Deborah Mays, told investigators he didn't feel well before he went to bed about 10 p.m. that night.
DINWIDDIE -- Beginning before dawn this Saturday, several activities are occurring that will mark the end of the 143rd anniversary celebration of the Petersburg Breakthrough and subsequent battles. At 5:30 a.m. Saturday, visitors to Pamplin Historical Park's Hart Farm will be led across the Breakthrough Battlefield in a tour that explains the end of the longest siege in American military history. The Breakthrough itself took place in the pre-dawn hours of April 2, 1865.
Northwestern Reservoir on the lower White Salmon River is scheduled to be drained this fall as part of the removal of small and old Condit Dam. More than 25,000 rainbow trout are being stocked this week in four Columbia Gorge lakes in preparation of Saturday's opening day.
ESPN College GameDay coming ESPN's college basketball pregame show will broadcast live from FedExForum. The show's hosted by Rece Davis, with analysis from Digger Phelps, Jay Bilas and Hubert Davis. It's the second time the program has been to Memphis, as Phelps & Co. were here on Feb. 26, 2005, to preview a game the University of Memphis lost that night to Louisville.
College students and graduates with student-loan debt can save themselves money this week by consolidating their student loans. Saturday is when the interest rate charged on student loans will receive its annual adjustment. This year, that rate is expected to jump substantially, according to JoAnn Laugel, director of financial aid at the University of Evansville.
By Chip Malafronte Register Staff NEW HAVEN -- The thought crept into senior Mark Arcobello's head not long before the puck dropped Saturday night.
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