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Column by J.R. Tolbert Submit guest columns: [email protected] Forty years ago, nearly 20 million Americans participated in what was the beginning of the modern environmental movement. Inspired by Sen. Gaylord Nelson after witnessing an oil spill off California’s coast, Earth Day was started to spotlight issues related to environmental degradation and the need to…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Nineteen months. That’s a long time at the height of the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression to be doing economic development on the fly. Waynesboro finally took a step in the direction of again becoming a player in the development arena with the announcement last week that…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello is facing a full-court press from the Republicans gunning for the chance to knock him off in November. The press might work better if the GOP’ers weren’t trying at the same time to steal the ball from each other. “My opponent Jim McKelvey put…
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Column by Del. Ken Plum www.kenplum.com Last week I took the extraordinary step of making a motion on the floor of the House of Delegates that a bill be discharged from a committee. The rules provide for such a motion, but it is seldom made and almost never approved. Had my motion been approved,…
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Column by Jim Gordon Submit guest columns: [email protected] I don’t know who will be named CAA Coach of the Year for the 2009-2010 season, but our vote goes to Waynesboro’s own Kenny Brooks, who guided his JMU Dukes to their first conference tournament championship Sunday by thrashing perennial power Old Dominion by 15 points…
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Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: [email protected] Does anyone out there in paradise care about anybody besides themselves? If not, then we have lost a community. We have lost paradise. Over 700 area residents attended the SRO public hearing held last week at the Rockbridge County High School to hear comments on the…
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Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected] It would seem to stand to reason that the breadbasket of Virginia could probably provide at least something in the way of homegrown food for schoolchildren. And then you think about it for a second, and it occurs to you that, you know, maybe it makes sense that…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] It can be the case that a resignation offered one day to take effect the next can be an indication of something salacious having happened behind the scenes, but that’s not what I’m hearing in regard to the surprise resignation last week of longtime Waynesboro tourism director Lianne Crookshanks….
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Staff Report UVa. sports: www.virginiasports.com Down five runs with one out in the ninth inning Saturday night, the Virginia baseball team staged an incredible rally and scored six times to shock Florida State, 9-8, at Dick Howser Stadium in Tallahassee, Fla. Keith Werman (So., Vienna, Va.) supplied the eventual game-winning hit – a two-out,…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] A three-pointer gave Eastern Mennonite a second-half lead it would not relinquish, but free throws made the difference as the Royals grabbed a 74-71 win over Whitworth on Friday to move into the NCAA Division III Elite Eight. The Royals (25-4), who trailed by two at the break at…
