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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] For Julie Myers and her UVa. women’s lacrosse team, winning is about being able to stay together as a team for one more week. “We’re tired, but we still have lots and lots of things that we want to do. Our underlying theme is, we really need to stay…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Two of Waynesboro’s major arts organizations – the Wayne Theatre Alliance and the Shenandoah Valley Art Center – have joined forces to create a new regional tradition. On Saturday, June 5, the first Arts of the Blue Ridge Festival will be held in Constitution Park in Downtown Waynesboro.
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Photos by Mark Miller Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The basketball players weren’t that good, so the filmmakers had to improvise a little. “Maybe we have them read it as written, and then shoot one where we have him say, No, they’re bad, just as a backup.” That was Matt Warner, the writer and…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The U.S. Minerals Management Service announced today that it is postponing indefinitely the public-comment period and the public hearings that were scheduled in Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina in the coming weeks on the proposed sale for oil and gas drilling off Virginia’s shore.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Redshirt senior Brett Garner (Burke, Va./Lake Braddock) connected on a solo home run with one out in the bottom of the ninth to give James Madison a walk-off 5-4 win over Delaware to earn the Colonial Athletic Association series sweep on Sunday afternoon at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Carl Tate looks at it as reinforcement. “It reinforces my promise to the citizens of Staunton not to vote to raise their taxes,” said Tate, a candidate for Staunton City Council, who made news in his upstart campaign with his April 8 announcement that he had signed the Taxpayer…
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Moderated by Chris Graham [email protected] Heading over to Charlottesville to be an extra in a local independent film, “The Good Parts,” written and produced by Staunton author Matthew Warner. My role: Basketball Player #2.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Talk about ambitious. Charlottesville-based Octagon Partners gave itself 10 months to rehab the old R.E. Lee High School on Churchville Avenue into senior housing and new spaces for ShenanArts and the Staunton Senior Center. And Octagon and general contractor Mathers Construction of Waynesboro are coming in a little ahead…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] #20 Virginia Tech avoided a three-game series sweep with an 8-5 win over second-ranked Virginia Sunday afternoon in front of a sellout crowd of 4,219 at Davenport Field. The Hokies used a five-run ninth inning, capped by Buddy Sosnoskie’s two-out, two-strike, bases-clearing double, to rally for its first win…
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Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected] The push toward tax reform that caught up in its inner workings the sitting governor and a future governor among its bipartisan leaders fell surprisingly silent after 2004, much like the tree in the woods with no one there to witness if it actually makes a sound.
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