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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Calling all men in Greater Augusta and Greater Lexington. Wanted: Men to serve as role models for young boys in single-parent homes. Skills: Nothing special required, actually. Just your time. “You can play cards, or if you love to cook, you can teach your little how to cook. Or if…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] VMI basketball coach Duggar Baucom does need to scout opponents, but not the same way other coaches do. “We scout personnel more than anything else,” said Baucom, whose Keydets press in the backcourt before dropping back into a variety of zone traps in the frontcourt that basically render opponents’ sets…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When you’re a TV weatherman, a trip to the local burger place can be a challenge not unlike the 10K races that Eric Pritchett runs when he’s not standing in front of a television screen telling us what Mother Nature has in store for us tomorrow. “What’s it going to…
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Column by David Cox “Support our troops!” If we learned anything from Vietnam, it’s that, regardless of what one thinks of a war, one can, should, and must support the men and women who fight it. And, let me add, their families. Those men and women, and their families, are going to need a lot…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSERS: Virginia beats #17 Arizona, doesn’t get a sniff in national polls I know – the polls don’t mean anything this time of year. But still … I’m guessing nobody saw the game – it ended early Sunday morning local time – and that somehow the final…
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Column by David Cox Not three months after we moved to the Valley in 1987, I got a call asking if our church could welcome, house, and support an exiled Ugandan bishop and his family of – get this – nine, in – get this – four weeks. “Impossible,” I thought. But the church, together…
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Story by Chris Graham The housing market in the Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia continues to see downward momentum.
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Column by David Cox Some things are downright immoral. In my book, and, I’ll suggest momentarily, the Good Book, payday lending is one.
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham PUSH: Waynesboro decides to hold fall capital-projects referendum I don’t know who will get the upper hand out of this one. Certainly the moderate majority on city council is thinking that it will be their side – and that a victory in November will spell doom for their…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I never, ever, drive Interstate 81. I go out of my way to avoid it. And of course, this costs me to no end.
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