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Tom Perriello | Fifth District Report

Published date: March 9, 2009 | 9:09 pm

Last week, we received more sobering news as we learned that our economy lost another 651,000 jobs in February, bringing the national unemployment rate to 8.1 percent. In some communities in the Fifth District, the unemployment rate is nearly double this. 4.4 million Americans have now lost their jobs since this recession began last year,…

Tom Perriello | Fifth District Report

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Published date: March 4, 2009 | 10:14 am

To mark the conclusion of Black History Month, I would like to present excerpts from the winning essays of my essay competition. I applaud these exceptional young writers and everyone who submitted entries.

David Cox | Unscrewing up

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Published date: February 27, 2009 | 3:14 pm

+ I screwed up.” -Barack Obama, 2/3/09 after Tom Daschle withdrew as a cabinet appointee over unpaid taxes. + “I screwed up.” -John McCain, 10/16/08 to David Letterman after finking out on him to be interviewed instead by Katie Couric. + “To err is human.” -Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 1711

AFP, ND editor named GM of Waynesboro Generals

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Published date: February 25, 2009 | 7:23 pm

The Waynesboro Generals are announcing today that Chris Graham of Waynesboro has been named the team’s new general manager. Graham, 36, is the co-owner of Augusta Free Press Publishing in Downtown Waynesboro and the editor of The New Dominion monthly print magazine and Augusta Free Press Online based in Waynesboro. The Staunton native grew up…

AFP Local News Blog – Feb. 13-15, 2009

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Published date: February 13, 2009 | 9:54 am

– News: Two-star Army general to visit JMU next week, Friday, 9:40 a.m.

Sanford D. Horn | RINO virus striking the Senate

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Published date: February 9, 2009 | 3:18 pm

With the potential, even likely, defections of senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe along with Arlen Specter, Barack Obama’s scare tactics may succeed in garnering enough so-called Republican votes in order to secure passage of the heinous alleged stimulus proposal.

Family establishes scholarship to honor daughter’s memory

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Published date: January 28, 2009 | 6:06 pm

Her tragic death moved the community. Now her parents want her life to impact students who like her dream of excelling in the arts. Jim and Kelly Hyson have established the Lindsay Ree Hyson Memorial Scholarship Fund through the Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge. The first scholarship will be awarded this year to…

Jim Bishop | Post-funeral ponderings: Thankful for solid support

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Published date: January 23, 2009 | 10:01 am

Funerals are sad, solemn and, when circumstances surrounding the death are tragic, extremely heartrending. At the same time, these occasions can be celebratory as the life and legacy of the person are memorialized and include a focus on life eternal.

Virginia Tech Peace Center gets a hand from EMU

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Published date: January 22, 2009 | 5:44 pm

Twenty-one months ago, Professor Jerzy Nowak was writing a grant at Virginia Tech when student Seung-Hui Cho began a shooting rampage. When the shootings were over, Nowak’s wife Jocelyne Couture-Nowak was among the 32 who died.

In memoriam – Margaret B. Decker

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Published date: January 13, 2009 | 10:04 am

Margaret Myrtle Brooks Decker, 84, of Staunton, died Sunday (Jan. 11, 2009) in Fishersville. Mrs. Decker was the grandmother of Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham. She was known to friends as Peggy, to her kids as Mom, and to an awful lot of people, and not all of them blood relatives, as Granny. She was…

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