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Melissa Fitzgerald never thought she’d be on perhaps the biggest stage in music. “Ever since I was tiny, I would watch this parade, and when I first started playing in marching band in ninth grade I always thought it would be cool to be in one of the marching bands in the parade. But I…
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Dale Spitzer will no longer be coaching football at Fort Defiance High School, bringing to a conclusion the absolute longest endgame in the history of high-school sports in the Shenandoah Valley. It’s been so long that I have long since lost the year – I think it was 2003, though time has eroded the exact…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] They don’t play football at Turner Ashby to go 5-5. Much less to go 5-5 in back-to-back seasons. The ’08 Knights don’t look like a 5-5 team. Tanner Croy threw for three touchdowns, and Cole Hart and Jamie Fellers each ran for 100-plus as TA rolled to a 56-14 win…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: Jim Sacco at the NV is givin’ ’em hell at Fort I’m just adding my voice on this to the work that Jim Sacco has been doing to give the Fort Defiance High School administration hell for the way it handled the recent dismissal of beloved wrestling coach Terry…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] DuPont Community Credit Union recently announced local winners from the Greater Augusta area in its annual college-scholarship program. The winners were chosen from a field of more than 140 applicants. The winners were: – Heather Bowling, Buffalo Gap High School, daughter of Margaret and George Bowling. – Danielle McEwen, Fort…
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Story by Chris Graham Emmett Hanger has come under fire from Scott Sayre in their contest for the 24th Senate District Republican Party nomination for his efforts to get legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants meeting several specific conditions to qualify for in-state tuition benefits. We asked the two candidates to discuss their positions on…
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Column by Chris Graham For Emmett Hanger, being conversant in agricultural issues isn’t an election-year strategy. It’s a way of life. “I think he’s more effective because he understands the realities that we face out here every day,” said Gerald Garber, a Weyers Cave farmer who remembers Hanger, a Mount Solon Republican, from their days…
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One way or another, the American taxpayers always get screwed by politicians eager to spend our hard-earned dollars on programs and projects that do little to improve our lives, safeguard our freedoms, or secure our future.
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It’s been 20 years since Donald Trump bragged that, as a star, he could do anything — even assault women — and get away with it.
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The U.S. war on Iran has put China in an uncomfortable position. With Donald Trump’s official visit upcoming in April, the Chinese don’t want to go overboard in their criticism.
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