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Join the Augusta Free Press and Facebook in the 2009 AFP Bracket Challenge. Click this link to join the Bracket Challenge and find out how your picks match up to fellow AFP readers. No prizes, per se, other than the bragging rights that come with being the Bracket Challenge champion.
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– Local News: Presidential Library receives $100,000 grant, Thursday, 3:30 p.m. – Local News: Statement from Francis Chester regarding county reassessments fight, Thursday, 3:30 p.m. – Local Events: Taste of Downtown Harrisonburg, Thursday, 3:30 p.m. – Local Events: Vendor Fair at AFP, Thursday, 10:40 a.m.
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The older I get, the more I appreciate the gift of quality conversation. It’s those memorable times of interacting one-on-one with my spouse or a friend or in a group when I go away thinking, wow, that was constructive, thoughtful and energizing. It doesn’t happen every time.
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A lot going on to discuss today – from the weather in the Valley and Central Virginia to the economy to pictures of breastfeeding on Facebook. These topics and more – including what you want to talk about – are the focus today on Open Thread.
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Phelps is a Main Street ambassador, and though a bit nutty at times, he’s doing his job of raising awareness of efforts to revitalize downtowns across America, including Downtown Waynesboro, where he’ll be spending the next couple of days. AFP editor Chris Graham reporting. Length: 2:26.
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Something occurred to me today while eating lunch and listening to an economics analyst talking on the TV about how car dealerships across the country could be affected by the bad news involving GM and Ford. I haven’t seen or heard a local car-dealer ad in months, maybe years.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Peter Lalich is no longer the future of UVa. football. “We have supported Peter, but believe today a point has been reached where it’s best for all concerned that he no longer participate on the team. This is my decision, and it has support of head football coach Al Groh….
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I like the “Friends” analogy the best. “Everyone on Facebook is ‘Friends’ age. They’re still in transition, haven’t put any roots down,” said Harrisonburg resident Mike Rodes, who with his cousin, Ronnie Rodes, is launching a next-generation social-networking website, NeighborhoodFriends.com, next week.
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Column by Todd Wickersty TheButterRoom.com It’s been a week since the Hokies disappointed thousands of Virginia Tech alums, students, and fans with a 24-21 loss to Danny Manning and the Kansas Jayhawks. I am still pissed, partly because I’ve been involved in a spirited e-mail exchange with a few other Hokies about public enemy #1,…
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Column by Jim Bishop Negotiating heavy traffic on Interstate 81, heading south from Pennsylvania to Harrisonburg after a too brief holiday visit with extended family, I’m thinking how fortunate that my happiness doesn’t depend on acquiring more “stuff” at this heavily-commercialized time of year.
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