Advance Morning News

It's Saturday, March 15, 2025. Today, Bill Crawley looks at UMW's Centennial celebration, the film adaptation of Nobody's Fool, and the week's best.

HISTORY ON THE HILL: A Centennial Celebration

By William Crawley

The year UMW turned one hundred included turmoil at the top, a presidential candidate on campus, and a towering intellectual who charged an appreciative audience, "On you go!"

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How to adapt a film from a book: Nobody’s Fool

By Alan Herrmann

Adaptations from book sources can be challenging for screenwriters because readers and viewers rarely share a universal vision of the book or film.

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Best of the Week

Executive Orders Project

• FEDERAL WORKFORCE: VA Facility Opens with Questions about Staffing

• IMMIGRATION: Local Latino Community Fearful Following Recent Executive Orders

Health

• Dulles Measles Case Causing Concern Locally

Localities

• In Spotsylvania, Unhoused Population Bringing County to Service Table

• City Planning Commission to Consider Eagle Village Rezoning

• Fredericksburg City Manager's Budget Proposes 3-Cent Tax Rate Increase

Washington

• Rep. Vindman Subject of Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin Demand

Opinion

• OPINION: Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy?

• FROM THE EDITOR: The Body of Knowledge and the Body Politic

Local Obituaries

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