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The Top Story by Chris Graham Dickie Bell hears the question more than you would think. “I get asked quite a bit – why don’t you have your elections in November?” the Staunton City Council member said, and he admits that he doesn’t have a ready answer. Bell is among a group of members of…
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Story by Chris Graham A new Shenandoah Valley web portal is debuting a video series highlighting life along the Great Valley Road. “We had been planning to launch ShenandoahValley.com as a Web site during the summer of 2007 when we got the idea to include Road Trip to History video,” said Hank Zimmerman, the owner…
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Item by Chris Graham University of Virginia professor and former national NAACP chairman Julian Bond will present a look at the civil-rights movement through the sounds of music. “Crossing the Color Line” looks at the movement through a history of American music. The event is scheduled for Sept. 4 at 7 p.m. at Buford Middle…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I just wrote a story this week about “The Republican Valley,” and now I’m going to write about how that’s changing. And nope, I’m not confused. Because the Valley is a-changin’, and I suppose it’s time for me to read the writin’ on the wall. How can I…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham Winner: Riverheads and Turner Ashby football fans Football games featuring the local powers will be broadcast on WSIG-96.9FM and WBOP-95.5FM this fall – every week, home and away.
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Story by Chris Graham Brent Finnegan waited for a while to see if anybody was going to step up to offer the kind of local-news website that he’d seen in other locales in Virginia and across the United States. And then one day he realized something – nobody was volunteering.
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Story by Chris Graham (Editor’s Note: This story was originally published May 1, 2006.) Months of anticipation were culminating in this one moment. “We’re rolling!” a member of the production crew shouted to the heavens. People gathered on the sidewalks of downtown Waynesboro buzzed at the beck and call. Something was about to go on…
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Story by Chris Graham She didn’t get her SAG card – and barely got more face time than her car did. But Elizabeth Massie still got a lot more out of her work on the summer blockbuster “Evan Almighty” than she ever could have expected.
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Column by Chris Graham Downtown Waynesboro has been the focus of those who want to see it return to some form of former splendor since way back in 1962. So … what do have to show for the past 45 years of work? Well, there are those new sidewalks – leading to retail spaces that…
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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.
