Valley Republicans hope party getting back on message

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The new Senate GOP leadership team looks … different … than the one that was in place this time last year. Conservative Lynchburg Sen. Stephen Newman is the new caucus chair, replacing moderate Glen Allen Sen. Walter Stosch, who barely survived a party-nomination challenge from the right wing in June…

Breaking ground on the Silicon Shenandoah

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It took a year to get from the first public announcement to the groundbreaking. The question now is, how long does it take to go from groundbreaking at the new SRI International Center for Advanced Drug Research in Rockingham County to the point where we start referring to the Valley…

Brain-injury recovery at a crossroads

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Fifty-four hundred people. In five counties. That’s a lot of people recovering from brain injuries in the Central Shenandoah Valley. “Our primary purpose is to help survivors of brain injury get back to their lives before they suffered their injury,” said Michelle Witt, the executive director of the Harrisonburg-based Crossroads…

Did contract mess kill Virginia football recruiting?

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “That’s going to kill recruiting.” That was my initial reaction to the news from earlier this year that the University of Virginia had decided not to add another year to football coach Al Groh’s contract to ensure that Groh would be at the head of the program past 2010 –…