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An Iraq combat veteran will speak next month in Charlottesville on the challenges faced by Wounded Warriors. Ben Shaw, a former Marine and currently a veteran peer specialist for the Virginia Wounded Warrior Program, will headline the inaugural event in the Power of Ten community-speaker series at the Region Ten Community Services Board, 504 Lynchburg…
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The bloom was already off the Tony Bennett rose before the news that another underclassman was leaving the Virginia basketball program. Last year it was freshman Tristan Spurlock, sophomore Sylven Landesberg and junior Jeff Jones. This year it’s Billy Baron, who unlike last year’s departees doesn’t have the distinction of having been a holdover from…
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The bloom was already off the Tony Bennett rose before the news that another underclassman was leaving the Virginia basketball program. Last year it was freshman Tristan Spurlock, sophomore Sylven Landesberg and junior Jeff Jones. This year it’s Billy Baron, who unlike last year’s departees doesn’t have the distinction of having been a holdover from…
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A fixed-route service connecting Waynesboro and Charlottesville began operations on Monday. The Shenandoah Express, a service of Virginia Regional Transit, will run three days a week – on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. Express users will be able to travel from Waynesboro to Charlottesville for 50 cents each way. The Express will connect with existing…
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Featuring Chris Graham [email protected] AFP editor Chris Graham joined host Coy Barefoot on Tuesday’s “Charlottesville-Right Now!” on WINA-1070AM. Chris and Coy talked about the AugustaFreePress.com Special Report on the PGI-Waynesboro economic-development deal and the plans in the works to build two movie-theater complexes in the West End of Waynesboro. The Charlottesville Podcasting Network has…
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‘Charlottesville-Right Now!’ www.wina.com AFP.com editor Chris Graham joins Coy Barefoot on WINA-1070AM’s “Charlottesville-Right Now!” Chris and Coy discuss the top news stories in Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro in 2009. A link to the podcast courtesy the Charlottesville Podcast Network – http://bit.ly/8fkVH5.
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The AFP will be live at tonight’s R.E. Lee-Charlottesville high-school football game with score updates available on Twitter. You can follow AFP editor Chris Graham on Twitter here. The Lee-Charlottesville game kicks off at 7 p.m.
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Staff Report New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will be in Charlottesville Friday morning to participate in a town hall with voters on behalf of the Barack Obama presidential campaign. The event will be held at the Martin Luther King Performing Arts Center at 1400 Melbourne Road and will begin at 10:15 a.m. The town hall…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Optometrists at Primary Eyecare will donate their eye-exam fees on World Sight Day – which is being marked on Thursday – to help the estimated 300 million worldwide who are blind or vision-impaired simply because they don’t have access to an eye exam or a pair of glasses. “Who better…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s time for new solutions, Michelle Obama told a rally of 2,500 people on Grounds at the University of Virginia Wednesday afternoon, “because we know that the old ways just won’t do.” Obama, the wife of Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama, and Jill Biden, the wife of Delaware senator…
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