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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] GROH-ING SENSE OF IMPENDING DOOM: Another blowout loss UConn. had a tough time beating Temple. Showing that Al Golden knows something that Al Groh doesn’t. That 45-10 loss that the Huskies hung on Groh’s Cavs might as well have been 45,000,000-10 the way it’s going over in Hooville. My take:…
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Crystal Clear column by Crystal Graham Two words – peer pressure. That was my reasoning for going to a teaser class offered by a Harrisonburg-based dance studio. The moment I took my shoes off and sat down on the hardwood floor, I wondered how my two friends, Mary and Bonnie, had talked me into this…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] “Rebuilding a Culture of Life” is the focus of a program being hosted by the Valley Family Forum at Cornerstone Church on Lake Shenandoah east of Harrisonburg Friday night at 7 p.m. The panel includes Dr. John Seeds, an OB/GYN physician and chairman of the OB/GYN Department at the Medical…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Mills Family Band is performing the Fridays on the Square gig on Court Square in Downtown Harrisonburg this week. Girl Scout Troop #9350 will be selling enchiladas and tacos during the concert to benefit the troop’s initiative to support Latina women in the Harrisonburg community. More information at www.downtownharrisonburg.org.
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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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