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The Top Story by Chris Graham What do you think of when you think of the Shenandoah Valley? Or Staunton? Stop right there. It took you too long. When you think of Nike, you think “swoosh.” Instantly. When you think of Coca-Cola, you see in a flash the red can and script lettering in your…
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Story by Jim Bishop “A teacher in whose classroom wit and wisdom vied for supremacy.” That was one of many tributes paid to G. Irvin (“G.I.”) Lehman at a recognition and retirement dinner held in his honor May 1, 1980 at Eastern Mennonite University. Dr. Lehman died Monday at Oak Lea Nursing Home in Harrisonburg….
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Story by Chris Graham A new Shenandoah Valley web portal is debuting a video series highlighting life along the Great Valley Road. “We had been planning to launch ShenandoahValley.com as a Web site during the summer of 2007 when we got the idea to include Road Trip to History video,” said Hank Zimmerman, the owner…
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop It’s that tad sad time of year. Temperatures and humidity assure us that it’s still summer, but subtle changes are blowin’ in the wind.
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Story by Chris Graham It seems like yesterday that Matt Lohr was making his first run for the Virginia House of Delegates. And yeah, count Lohr among those who think that time flies when you’re having fun. “It really does go quickly – but I understand why our founding fathers wanted it that way, because…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I never, ever, drive Interstate 81. I go out of my way to avoid it. And of course, this costs me to no end.
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham As you probably don’t know, my TV show was recently canceled. (Repeat after me: Aw-w-w-w-w!) Yes, it was tragic. I guess.
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Story by Chris Graham Winchester player Luke Greinke and Waynesboro coach Lawrence Nesselrodt picked up the two biggest Valley League postseason honors today. Greinke, a first baseman-outfielder-pitcher, was named the league’s most valuable player, while Nesselrodt was named coach of the year. Greinke, a rising senior at Auburn, led the Valley with a .417 batting…
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Story by Chris Graham Brent Finnegan waited for a while to see if anybody was going to step up to offer the kind of local-news website that he’d seen in other locales in Virginia and across the United States. And then one day he realized something – nobody was volunteering.
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Story by Laura Lehman Amstutz Assignments completed while in seminary often wind up stuffed into a box or placed in a file, but for Christine Nafziger, one of her seminary projects became a way to share her gifts in music and her knowledge of prayer with others. Nafziger, a 2006 Eastern Mennonite Seminary graduate originally…
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