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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Brothers Beau and Kyle Baker couldn’t get the competitive juices out of their blood. So the former state high-school wrestling champions started a mixed-martial-arts training club – with themselves as the charter members.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The transformation of the Shenandoah Valley into the Silicon Shenandoah is not coming along as quickly as some might have hoped – but that doesn’t mean that it’s not coming along.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] He tried to play it off like it wasn’t a big deal – but if it wasn’t a big deal, what was Dean Keener doing high-fiving students after his James Madison basketball team opened the 2007-2008 season with an impressive 100-88 win over Siena on Nov. 9?
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s the hardest thing a young athlete can do. “It sounds like a good idea – I’ll go, I’ll redshirt, OK. Until you’re used to playing games every year of your life, and that’s taken away. And so you wander around – you wonder why you’re practicing, because you’re not…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] That first half of basketball that I saw the other night in Harrisonburg was mighty ugly. OK, just looking at the scoreboard – which had Siena on top of JMU by a 44-42 count in a game that the Dukes would later win 100-88 – wasn’t in and of itself…
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Items by Jim Bishop Children’s choir releases 11th CD The splendor of brass, pipe organ and 150 children’s voices combine as the Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir (SVCC) of Harrisonburg, Va., heralds its 16th season with the release of its 11th recording, “Christmas Joy.” This is the second collaborative effort that includes members of the Washington…
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Story by Laura Lehman Amstutz Shortly after the events of September 11, 2001, Dan Seifert joined the National Guard. The former Air Force technician didn’t expect that this move would create a theological crisis, but at age 42, he was a different person.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Eleven – yes, eleven – people want to be the new clerk of court in Rockingham County. But the race for the $123,000-a-year job seems to be coming down to the two major-party nominees. “I really think it’s going to be a two-person race,” Bridgewater College history and political-science professor…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I always wonder how I would react if I had everything taken away from me and had to fight to get it back. Cara Atkins has been there, done that – and says it is the most difficult thing you can imagine having to go through. “It’s been really difficult…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Saw a couple of really depressing movies this week – “Gone Baby Gone,” currently playing at The Dixie Theater in Staunton, and “Rendition” now at the Regal multiplex up in Harrisonburg. Each, in its own way, is enough to keep me gloomy until the big Holiday Depression…
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