Seller beware: It’s a buyer’s market, not a seller’s, and not a builder’s

Chris Graham

Elizabeth Barnes is “wiped out.” “We priced it right, too,” said Barnes, talking about her 325 Lee Drive, Waynesboro, home, that she put on the market in July 2008 at a list price of $275,000, $40,000 below what she was going to list it at a year earlier when she had flirted with the idea…

In the News

Chris Graham

– Local News: Left eastbound I-64 lane on Afton Mountain to close for cleanup, posted Monday, 2:45 p.m. – Chris Graham on Facebook: Sports and religion – Local News: I-64 clear after early-morning accident on Afton Mountain, posted Monday, 9:15 a.m. – Event: MHA-A golf tournament on tap, posted Monday, 9:15 a.m. – Local News:…

Jim Bishop | Facing up to some recognizable facts

Jim Bishop

I discovered, without really looking, that there’s a name for my latest malady. I am suffering from – repeat after me – prosopagnosia (pros-uh-pag-NO-see-uh) noun. It’s an inability to recognize familiar faces, possibly attributed to cognitive dissonance resulting from a brain injury, but that’s been a handy excuse for a larger recital of faults and…

EMU honors faculty, staff

Jim Bishop

The faculty and staff of Eastern Mennonite University honored one colleague who is retiring and cited 55 others for long years of service at the school’s annual recognition dinner Tuesday evening, April 28. Lawrence M. Yoder, John S. Coffman professor of missiology at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, will retire at the close of this academic year…

In the News

Chris Graham

– State News: Two “mild” swine-flu cases reported in Virginia, posted Thursday, 8:15 p.m. – Chris Graham on Facebook: Am I the only person thinking that the media is whipping up mass mysteria over a flippin’ flu virus? – Event: Small business workshop in Waynesboro, posted Thursday, 9:45 a.m. – Event: Operation and supply chain…

Tailbacks shine in JMU spring game

AFP

Rising sophomore tailbacks Scott Noble (Baltimore, Md./Franklin) and Corwin Acker (Landover, Md./Blake) ran for touchdowns to highlight James Madison’s spring football game at Bridgeforth Stadium/Zane Showker Field Saturday. Noble, who sat out the 2008 season as a redshirt after playing as a true freshman in 2007, scored on a one-yard carry on the game’s first…