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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s bad enough that it gets the facts of Tom Perriello’s record wrong. That happens every minute of every day anywhere in America where political ads run on TV. But you have to cast the net out far and wide to find a campaign that puts a white candidate in…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A former Monticello High School student will be among the contestants on the next cycle of “America’s Next Top Model,” the reality-TV show hosted by supermodel Tyra Banks. Lauren Brie Harding, the daughter of Albemarle County Sheriff Chip Harding, will be one of the 14 contestants on the show. The…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] An Albemarle County winery will hold a special opening on Aug. 2 and Aug. 3 to introduce itself to the Virginia wine community. Virginia Wineworks has set up shop at the former Montdomaine winery 12 miles south of Charlottesville. Partners Michael Shaps and Philip Stafford will offer complimentary tastings at…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Money is a sign of strength in a political strength. Tom Perriello’s congressional bid continues to show fiscal strength. The Fifth District Democratic Party nominee raised more than $300,000 in the second fundraising quarter of 2008 and has raised more than $900,000 all told, the campaign announced on Tuesday.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A project initiated by students, teachers and parents in the J.P. Burley Middle School community to design and place a new sign, plaque and garden on the school grounds has come to fruition.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee thinks Tom Perriello has a chance to turn a red seat blue. “I’m thrilled that the DCCC and Democratic leadership are realizing what the voters of Southside Virginia have been saying since we began this race,” Perriello said of the DCCC designation of his Fifth…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll Question: How are gas prices affecting your daily life? Cars are our freedom. They’re how we get to work, go on vacation, make it to the parents’ house for Sunday dinner, travel to and from play practice and baseball and soccer games after school. Our freedom is…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] State legislators today approved a $2.6 billion bond package that will fund a host of important infrastructure improvements across the Commonwealth. State Del. Steve Landes, R-Weyers Cave, talked up the improvements that will be in the works in the Greater Augusta area as a result of the action in the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] 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…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] 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…
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