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The Waynesboro office of Lawrence Transportation Systems was honored with the President’s Club Award by United Van Lines for its work this year in generating $2 million in sales for the worldwide transportation company.
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Dear EarthTalk: I’m thinking about starting an environmental club in my middle school. Can you give me some ideas about how to start? Can you connect me with other school clubs? – Rosemary, Andover Township, N.J. Starting an environmental club at school is a great way to get students energized about taking care of the…
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Hey! Rub-a-dub-dub! Ho! Rub-a-dub-dub! Three men in a tub, And who do you think were there? The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, And all of them gone to the Democratic fair! The Virginia gubernatorial race is on! It’s probably the best field of Democratic candidates running for governor in the history of the party….
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Before we go any further let me say that I did not vote for you. I do not care who you hung around with in Chicago, where you went to church and what Michelle wrote in her Princeton Senior Thesis. Most importantly, I don’t care what is the color of your skin. Obviously, the press…
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Thanksgiving Day is looming, and I’m salivating already. It’s a favorite holiday, for several reasons. Not only do we gather as a family to ask the Lord’s blessings and enjoy savory fare, but “wish lists” appear on our refrigerator door to help launch the festive yuletide season. At this giving-thanks time of year, I’m especially…
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It was early on Election Night. I, along with fellow Democrats, had come to the Blue Nile Ethiopian Restaurant in Downtown Harrisonburg to watch the returns. A big tent had been erected in the parking lot. One of the organizers lowered the TV sound briefly and announced that cars parked in the municipal parking lot…
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Hollywood is still abuzz with the news: “The Secret Life of Bees,” currently at The Visulite in Staunton, is a honey of a movie. And while many films based on best-selling books are disappointing, you won’t get stung by this one. (OK, OK. Enough with the Apoidean puns, already. No more, I promise. Stretching for…
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There was no way, I told people, often, that Sam Rasoul doesn’t get at least 40 percent in his Sixth District race with Bob Goodlatte. The kid plain outworked Goodlatte from start to finish, and then, hey, wasn’t Goodlatte running commercials at the end, and telling audiences what he would do “if” he was re-elected…
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Nicholas Wolterstorff, professor emeritus of philosophy at Yale University and currently a visiting professor at the University of Virginia, will give two lectures on “justice” Thursday, Nov. 13, at Martin Chapel of the seminary building at Eastern Mennonite University.
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Tom Perriello used his 745-vote lead over Virgil Goode as the basis for a declaration of victory in their Fifth District congressional race today, though we can almost certainly expect a recount given the relatively small margin between the two candidates.
