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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] Charlottesville doctor Eric Rydland takes an interesting approach to medicine. A classically trained pediatrician, Rydland often chooses to treat his young patients with herbal remedies rather than prescription drugs.
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I can’t say anything bad about Mac. I know a lot of people who can. Does that list include the powers-that-be at UVa.? Have to wonder, don’tcha? “Representing Virginia Athletics and being the voice has been a true passion for me. I now have an…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Historian Ann Miller will present a lecture entitled “Development of County Road Systems and Their Impact on Early Settlement” at the final event in the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society’s Spring Lecture Series. The May 8 lecture will begin at 7 p.m. and will be held at the Shenandoah Valley Folk Art…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Branden Albert was barely on Al Groh’s radar screen – and he wasn’t on many other ones. Now a projected top-five NFL draft pick, Albert didn’t even play high-school football until he transferred from his native Rochester, N.Y., to Baltimore, and went out for football as a junior at the…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’ve got a face made for radio, er, podcasting. The good news for you guys – I’m not in HD. “You have to be really careful about what you’re doing each and every day. Because imperfections show up a lot more in high-definition. It’s a lot less…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Shenandoah Valley is recession-proof. Charlottesville is recession-proof. I’ve heard people say this for years. As the argument goes, the local economies have two big things going for them – major universities and agriculture. Kids still go to school in recessions. And kids and everybody else still eat in recessions….
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Yeah, I know, invoking “Field of Dreams” in a piece examining the economic aspects of a proposed $20 million baseball stadium is beyond cheesy. But I do it to try to make you consider something that you might not otherwise. Namely, that the whole idea rests on the notion that a Downtown Waynesboro baseball stadium…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I wanted to learn more about what Waynesboro could be facing if it follows through the very, very preliminary plans that have been put forth regarding the possible location of a minor-league baseball team in the River City. That’s how I came across Gary Hodge and his 20-year effort to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] UVa. guard Sharnee Zoll and JMU guard Tamera Young are among the 20 players invited to the 2008 WNBA Draft. Zoll, a 5-7 point guard, and Young, a 6-2 shooting guard, will join luminaries including Tennessee center Candice Parker, LSU star Sylvia Fowles and ACC standouts Crystal Langhorne and Laura…
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