The Queen has left the throne, Long Live the Queen

Jim Bishop

  Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] A ceramic pitcher with a Stangl design, sketched by my brother, J. Eric Bishop, appeared on the cover of the memorial service program above the Scripture verse, “Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her” (Prov. 31:29). The image…

You can go home again

Chris Graham

Wayne Theatre Alliance presents special performance of Hamner’s Homecoming Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] The Wayne Theatre Alliance has engaged the Hamner Theater to present a reader’s theatre version of Earl Hamner’s beloved family Christmas story The Homecoming on Saturday, Dec. 19 at 2 p.m. as part of Waynesboro’s Christmas in River City celebration. The…

Dukes win fourth straight

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Staff Report Redshirt freshman quarterback Justin Thorpe (Richmond, Va./Varina) threw for 259 yards and a career-high three scores and James Madison had five touchdown plays of 31 yards or longer in a 43-12 Colonial Athletic Association football victory over Towson at Bridgeforth Stadium/Zane Showker Field Saturday. Thorpe hit on 14 of 21 passes, and the…

News from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Chris Graham

Friday, July 17 – Press briefing by Tony Blinken, national security advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, on the vice president’s upcoming trip to Ukraine and Georgia Thursday, July 16 – Press gaggle with Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton – Vice President Biden highlights Recovery Act progress in Virginia – Statement from the president on…

Righteous selves: Band mixes reggae, other musical stylings in ‘diverse’ sound

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Story by Chris Graham  Chris Woodson likes to “tell stories.” Which is why he’s a fan of, of all things, country music. “I like country music because you can tell stories. Every song is a story. Some guy, a regular Joe like you or I, wrote the song in his hometown, and then some big…

Local GOP splintering over … what, exactly?

Chris Graham

Valley Democrats are clashing over ideology. Valley Republicans are clashing over … well, it seems their very existence. “Time to rebuild, and move forward,” commented Chris Green, the author of the Spank That Donkey political blog, in a post on his blog last night, after a contentious ACRC meeting that led to a mass exodus…

Tom Perriello | Fifth District Report

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I just returned to Washington after a whirlwind week around the Fifth district. Over the congressional recess period, my staff and I covered a collective 3,000 miles. We had 60 meetings with more than 1,300 people from every locality in the district, talking with folks about the economic recovery plan and what it means for…

Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009

Chris Graham

– Virginia Politics: Bowerbank critical of Bolling on roads funding, Tuesday, 3:30 p.m. – Virginia Politics: Perriello staff adds stimulus liaison, Tuesday, 3:30 p.m. – Virginia Politics: Chamber of Commerce praises Perriello for work on stimulus, Tuesday, 3:30 p.m. – Sports: Evans named to Lieberman finalists list, Tuesday, 3:30 p.m. – Virginia Politics: Senate committee…