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Column by Jim Bishop MINERAL COUNTY, W.Va. – The phone call from Uncle Phil Dayton, my mom’s youngest brother, came weeks before the event, a personal invitation, and I thought, yes, why not? We pass this way but once. I’m glad we decided to make the two-and-a-half-hour trip to suburban Short Gap. It was an…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Latin sounds of Los Gatos will fill the air in the Blue Ridge Community College Fine Arts Center in Weyers Cave on Saturday. The 7:30 p.m. concert is supported by funding from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Adult admission is $5….
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Barack Obama has a good head start on building a Virginia base. John McCain, though behind, is trying to get caught up. The McCain campaign is holding events statewide tonight under the “McCain Nation” banner as part of an effort to get the ground war in Virginia going.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A Harrisonburg-based big band will play the final concert in the 2008 area artist series at the Theater at Lime Kiln in Lexington. Just Jazzin’ is the headliner at the 7:30 p.m. Saturday concert at Lime Kiln. The ensemble was formed in 2000 by Stave Sachs as an outreach of…
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Column by Jim Bishop Elvis Aron Presley – actually, all one needs to say is “Elvis,” and you know who I mean – would be 73 years old on Saturday, Aug. 16, the 31st anniversary of his death. Some insist he still is, spotted at K-Mart, at Burger King or being chauffeured in one of…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s not just slasher movies and “American Pie.” I think conservatives have a point that the movies that we see playing at the multiplex every weekend are pushing the envelope quite a bit. Even supposedly family-friendly movies feature language and situations that I don’t know that I feel…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Harrisonburg is offering a taste of its downtown next week. Beginning on Tuesday, restaurants in Downtown Harrisonburg will offer a fixed menu at fixed prices to reach out to faithful patrons and new customers downtown.
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Column by Jim Bishop Greetings from Harrisonburg! I thought this would be my annual beach report, live and direct from the Outer Banks, N.C. But, as Scottish poet Robert (Sun)Burns rightly observed, “The best-laid plans of mice and men gang often go awry” (Gang aft agley). Instead, I’m hunkered down in the bedroom of our…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] NBC News political director Chuck Todd broke it down for us last night on “Countdown with Keith Olbermann.” Assigning leaners in the Electoral College to the candidates that it appears that they will support, the 2008 presidential race comes down to four states – Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio and…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Gotta agree with Chris Saxman on the energy issue. “There isn’t an answer,” Saxman told me yesterday, emphasizing the word “an.” That’s right on point with where I am on the energy issue. There isn’t an answer; it’s a lot more complicated than that.
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