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Story by Jim Bishop Elwood E. Yoder of Harrisonburg can’t quite believe what he had in his hands – a rare book printed in 1539 in Strasbourg, Germany. Not only that, but the thick tome was printed on the very press that is featured in Yoder’s novel, Margaret’s Print Shop, published in 2005 by Herald…
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Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall By Chris Graham and Patrick Hite The following is an excerpt from Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall, a book on the history of University of Virginia basketball at University Hall, which closed in 2006. The book was published in 2006…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The 27th Senate District promised to be a wide-open affair even before moderate Republican Sen. Russ Potts announced his retirement plans. But now with Potts out of the picture, the battle between his successor as the Republican standard-bearer in the district that stretches from Winchester in the Shenandoah Valley…
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop It’s that tad sad time of year. Temperatures and humidity assure us that it’s still summer, but subtle changes are blowin’ in the wind.
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop I’m an inveterate list-maker. Preparing a weekly “to do” list first thing Monday morning increases the odds of my remembering and actually completing important tasks – at work, home and elsewhere.
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Column by David Cox The nation is in one of its periodic political shifts. As FDR inaugurated the party of the New Deal, which evaporated under the pressures of the Vietnam War and social turmoil, and as Ronald Reagan brought “a new day in America” that now darkens amidst the Iraq war and administrative cynicism,…
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Story by Chris Graham What do you think? Comment below Charles Curry’s decision to retire from Augusta County politics in 2000 was a shock to more than a few observers – but it was no more a shock than his announcement that he was ready to make a comeback.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham More than 7,000 Virginia children were found to have been abused or neglected last year. Another 14,000 incidents of abuse and neglect never made it to the authorities for assessment or investigation. Not that you would know any of this from reading the papers or watching the evening news.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham If there was a magic bullet that could be used to solve the teen-pregnancy problem, it would have been used decades ago. But, alas, there is no magic bullet – or even a single accepted way to combat the problem. Does traditional sex education get the job done? How…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham It was around the turn of the new century that David Kleppinger first picked up on what has since become the new trend in economic development.
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