Posted on July 18, 2008 by chrisgraham
Item by Denise Allen Membreno
Kristalyn K. Gallagher graduated from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine with the degree of Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine on May 31.
While at WVSOM, Dr. Gallagher was the treasurer of Emergency Medicine Club. She has a bachelor of science degree in Physiology from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Okla. She [...]
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Posted on July 17, 2008 by chrisgraham
Item by Chris Graham
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The Augusta County Sheriff’s Office is asking for your help in its investigation of a residential burglary in the Mount Solon area in May.
The burglary took place during the daylight hours of May 21 on North River Road in the Mount Solon area, according to Sgt. A.C. Powers. A substantial amount [...]
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Posted on July 16, 2008 by chrisgraham
Item by Chris Graham
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The family-friendly “Fly Away Home” will be the featured entertainment this week at Fridays on the Square in Downtown Harrisonburg.
Dog trainer Wendy Perry from PetSmart will be on hand before the film to teach audience members more about their four-legged friends. Perry will demonstrate safety tips such as how to approach [...]
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Posted on July 15, 2008 by chrisgraham
Item by Chris Graham
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The Boogie Kings, comedian Marsha Howard, singer-songwriter Duffy and his playing partner, Matt Thomas, and more are on the bill on “The River City Radio Hour” Friday night.
The “Radio Hour” will also feature vocalist Claire Sax and the third installment of Bob Crawford’s serial suspense mystery, Night Hawk and Murder at [...]
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Posted on July 15, 2008 by chrisgraham
Item by Chris Graham
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The Waynesboro Writer’s Group meeting set for Saturday morning at Stone Soup Books and Cafe will feature a familiar face - and badge.
Waynesboro police officer Mark Kearney will lead the monthly meeting at 10 a.m. at Stone Soup in Downtown Waynesboro. Kearny is the founder of the Book ‘Em Foundation and [...]
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Posted on July 14, 2008 by chrisgraham
Item by Chris Graham
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Nighttime paving on Interstate 81 in Rockingham County beginning tonight may cause delays for motorists traveling in the work zone.
The paving operations will be in the northbound lanes from mile marker 236 near the Rockingham/Augusta line to mile marker 240 near the Bridgewater/Mount Crawford exit.
The paving work will be done nightly [...]
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Posted on July 14, 2008 by chrisgraham
Item by Jim Bishop
How do young future leaders in the church receive encouragement to develop their potential?
LEAP365 at Eastern Mennonite Seminary is one answer to this question. On July 10, 15 high-school students from across the country arrived on the EMU campus to study and interact with seminary professors. They will also spend nine days [...]
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Posted on July 14, 2008 by chrisgraham
Item by Chris Graham
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The Staunton Music Festival is kicking off its 11th season with a busy Aug. 15-17 weekend.
The season runs through Sept. 14 with eight individual programs at venues in the Queen City, including four chamber-music concerts, a gala dinner and concert, a baroque evening and a fully-staged opera.
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Posted on July 11, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Jim Bishop
It looks like something out of a Jules Verne novel.
John L. Horst, professor emeritus of physics at Eastern Mennonite University, recently salvaged from storage a large chart depicting “principles of electromagnetic radiations,” dated 1938. Horst taught at EMU from 1967 until retiring in 2004.
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Posted on July 10, 2008 by chrisgraham
Item by Chris Graham
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Sgt. Tony Shifflett of the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office recently completed the Advanced Police Sniper School in New Canton and finished the course as the “Top Shot” among the 15 attendees.
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Posted on July 3, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
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Three bushmen show up at the U.S. consulate in Lagos, Nigeria, after having been recruited to come to America to help the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton build authentic mud huts for a 1700s-era West African compound that will help the museum tell the story of the colonial African slave trade.
It’s [...]
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Posted on July 2, 2008 by chrisgraham
Item by Chris Graham
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A $3,000 grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts will help the show go on at “The River City Radio Hour.”
The grant announcement was made June 20. The commission praised director Clair Myers, also the executive director of the Wayne Theatre Alliance, for the “Radio Hour”’s use of professional playwrights [...]
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Posted on June 27, 2008 by chrisgraham
Item by Chris Graham
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Want to know what the Wayne Theatre will look like when the redevelopment project is all said and done?
You can now take a virtual tour of the Wayne.
Click on the YouTube link below, or go to the Wayne Theatre Alliance website at www.waynetheatre.org to take the tour.
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Posted on June 25, 2008 by chrisgraham
Item by Chris Graham
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They didn’t teach this kind of stuff when I was in school.
I’m referring specifically here to basic digital photography and photo editing, which will be the focus of a summer program for the arts sponsored by Bridgewater College July 7-11.
The program, funded through a grant from the P. Buckley Moss Foundation [...]
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Posted on June 24, 2008 by chrisgraham
Item by Chris Graham
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The park-and-ride at Exit 227 on Interstate 81 in Augusta County will be closed for six hours on Saturday.
The closure will run from 6 a.m. to noon Saturday to allow for pot-hole patching, line painting and other maintenance in the lot.
Vehicles should be removed from the lot by 6 a.m. at [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2008 by chrisgraham
Item by Chris Graham
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A wide load, indeed.
A 28-foot-wide steel structure will be making its way up Interstate 81 from Southwest Virginia on its way to Baltimore this week, making traveling on the I-81 corridor more adventurous than usual.
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Posted on June 9, 2008 by chrisgraham
Item by Jim Bishop
Every parent’s worst nightmare is to have a child abducted. In Uganda, that may mean knowing your child is being forced to perform atrocities or being used as a sex slave. This was the reality for Angelina Atyam for seven years.
Last week, Atyam told her powerful story of hate and fear changed [...]
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Posted on May 18, 2008 by chrisgraham
Item by Jim Bishop
Sixteen students, a faculty member and a staff person from Eastern Mennonite University are safe in China following the devastating May 12 earthquake there. Their travel and study plans are being modified, but the group will complete their scheduled term.
Part of the EMU group had arrived in Beijing May 12 just before [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
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We’re starting to learn a little bit more about Slade Woodson, the 19-year-old from Afton who is now facing felony charges in Waynesboro related to two shootings early yesterday morning, and is being called a suspect in a series of shootings reported on Interstate 64 in Albemarle County from the same [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by chrisgraham
Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham
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I think we learned yesterday that we can rest assured that our law-enforcement folks are going to keep us safe no matter what.
“We had one here in Waynesboro,” Waynesboro police chief Doug Davis told me, referring to the shootings reported overnight Wednesday and Thursday on Interstate 64 in [...]
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