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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Global warming … sucks. “Hey, man, how was the beach?” my friend Eli asked me when he saw me on Sunday. I looked like a lobster after the boiling water, for the record. And I hadn’t been to the beach – or anywhere near it. “Just went to…

Seminary interns spreading themselves across Valley

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Story by Laura Lehman Amstutz As second-year Eastern Mennonite University students anticipate the start of the new school year, they usually think about one thing – the internship. Seventeen second-year seminary students began internships this fall. The internship is part of the “Formation in Ministry” course, required for students in the three-year master of divinity…

Charlottesville taxpayers, Staunton taxpayers, UVa. football

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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham PUSH: Charlottesville looks at stormwater-system improvements This probably sounds familiar to Waynesboro residents. The city has an aging stormwater-system infrastructure, and is looking at ways it can come up with dollars to pay for improvements. And among those ways – assessing fees on residents and on businesses. Count…

BC launches multimillion-dollar fund-raising campaign

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Item by Chris Graham Bridgewater College has begun a public campaign to raise millions of dollars for endowed scholarships, academic enhancement, facilities improvements, laboratories and more. Harrisonburg lawyer Nathan H. Miller is serving as the chair of the $40 million capital campaign. Miller is a 1965 alum of Bridgewater College. “This campaign is a wonderful…

EMU, Harrisonburg schools teaming up on music program

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Story by Jim Bishop The (Shenandoah) hills will be alive with the sound of (string) music as a cooperative program between Harrisonburg City Schools and Eastern Mennonite University begins this fall. The city school system is funding a strings instruction program through EMU’s Preparatory Music Program, part of the university’s music department. It will begin…