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Item by Jim Bishop Every parent’s worst nightmare is to have a child abducted. In Uganda, that may mean knowing your child is being forced to perform atrocities or being used as a sex slave. This was the reality for Angelina Atyam for seven years. Last week, Atyam told her powerful story of hate and…
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Column by Jim Bishop “Dreamin’ . . . I’m always dreamin’ … ’til my dreamin’ comes true …” – Johnny Burnette (1960) “The rest of your life begins today.” Another simple, yet profound statement on the sign in front of Weavers Mennonite Church along U.S. 33 grabbed my attention. I hadn’t thought of this truism…
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Column by Scott Suggs June is normally what we consider a transition month for bass. This is in reference to the movement of bass from their spawning flats to their deepwater summer hangouts. Knowing that these often big groups of bass are heading towards deeper water and what areas and bait to key on can…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Maybe Alicia Rimel knows something I don’t. “The news squelched rumors that former City Manager Jerry Gwaltney might return to the job,” Rimel wrote in her story that appeared in Tuesday’s News Virginian about the appointment of assistant city manager Mike Hamp as the interim…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Kai Degner is ready to throw his hat into the Harrisonburg City Council ring. Degner, the executive director of the Arts Council of the Valley, will announce his candidacy for city council tomorrow afternoon. The announcement will take place at 5:15 p.m. at Clementine Cafe in Downtown Harrisonburg, and will…
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The Politics Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] I was planning to use this column to blast Hillary Clinton. “I will be making no decisions tonight.” Famous last words, right? But then Barack Obama took the stage in St. Paul, Minn., and did what Hillary should have done in New York. “You chose to listen…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Do you have a favorable view of how the new city-council majority handled the departure of Doug Walker? The top person in local government is sacked in the middle of the night, right there in front of everybody’s disbelieving eyes. He is replaced by a personal friend…
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The Politics Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] One guy gets more votes, the other guy has friends in high places, and you can guess who wins. I could be talking about George Bush, Florida, the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000, but I’m not. I’m talking about the Augusta County Republican Committee, which elected Larry…
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The Politics Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] More of your taxpayer dollars are headed toward the wastebasket. “It is my belief that Virginia’s partial-birth abortion ban, passed overwhelmingly by the people’s elected representatives in the General Assembly, is constitutional. Given the significance of the issues at stake, and the fact that the United States…
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Column by Jim Bishop The stage lights came up, applause and cheers erupted, and I stared down on music legends. The Eagles had landed. The incredibly popular band, formed in the early 1970s in Los Angeles, Calif., was in Charlottesville, Va., on its “Long Road Out of Eden” tour. Tickets, though outrageously priced, were available,…
