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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] Easter dashes madly around the calendar from year to year, arriving as early as March 22 (which last took place in 1913) and as late as April 25 (that last happened in 1943). The Easter date is set around the time of the vernal, or spring,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Harrisonburg Mayor Kai Degner is throwing his hat into the ring for the soon-to-be-open 26th District seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. “At a time when the General Assembly’s decisions are so severely impacting local government budgets, be it in education, transportation, law enforcement, environmental security, social services…
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Submitted Item News tips: [email protected] This week, workshops up and down the Shenandoah Valley will bring together farmers, restaurant owners, distributors, bankers, volunteers, and government agencies to discuss the growth opportunities in the local foods economy. As national attention is focusing on both the health and environmental benefits of eating locally, entrepreneurs in the…
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Hosted by Chris Graham [email protected] This week’s AFP Show features: – An interview with Staunton City Council candidate Carl Tate (6:51) [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/thenewdominion01/3-22_AFP_SHOW_carl_tate.mp3] – An interview with Staunton Music Guild president Karen Lawrence (9:55) [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/thenewdominion01/3-22_AFP_SHOW_stn_music_guild.mp3] – A discussion of homelessness in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County with Tom Benevento of the New Community Project. [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/thenewdominion01/3-22_AFP_SHOW_tom_benevento.mp3]
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Before the game, Brian O’Connor caught up with Bob Wease, who had recruited him to pitch for the Valley League’s Harrisonburg Turks back in 1990. The game itself worked out well for O’Connor’s top-ranked Virginia baseball team, which broke up a close game with a pair of unearned runs…
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Edited by Chris Graham AFPBusiness.com AFP Publishing News: AFP completes redesign of YMCA website Augusta Free Press Publishing has completed the redesign of the website of the Waynesboro Family YMCA. The new website went live in January. The site features up-to-date information on program offerings in adult and senior fitness, youth sports and childcare. Story…
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Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro was once the envy of Western Virginia for its manufacturing economy. As recently as 1990, almost half of the city’s workforce was employed in manufacturing, whose rate of pay has traditionally been at least 40 percent and some years approaching 50 percent higher than the median income…
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– Networking – Chamber stuff – Radio/TV interviews Blog by Chris Graham AFPBusiness.com AFPBusiness.com editor Chris Graham blogs on a recent guest visit to a BNI networking group in Harrisonburg, the latest news on the issue involving former Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Ben Carter and what Augusta Free…
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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] “Twenty years now . . . where’d they go? Twenty years . . . I don’t know . . .” – Bob Seger, “Like a Rock” (1986) How did it all come to pass so quickly? Feb. 20, 2010, marked my 20th anniversary of churning out…
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– Candidate set to announce for Ward C seat – Bridgewater College prof elected president of the Virginia Psychological Association Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Candidate set to announce for Ward C seat: A press conference has been scheduled for noon today in the Council Chambers at the Charles T. Yancey Municipal Building to announce…
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