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The 2012 session of the General Assembly is moving by rapidly. Deadlines for the submission of bills and budget amendments have long passed, and both houses of the Assembly are in full swing. There were both good and bad signs of things to come this past week. On the hopeful side, Democrats and Republicans worked…
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The beloved family Christmas story, The Homecoming, by Earl Hamner, is coming to the Hamner Theater for 17 performances, beginning Thursday, Dec. 1, closing Sunday, Dec. 18, with two free previews on Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov 29 and 30. In 1971, CBS aired a TV pilot called The Homecoming: a Christmas Story. This show became…
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A boy walking down the street throws a quarter up in the air intending to catch it in his hand. Only the quarter lands in his mouth and ends up lodged in his throat. His father tries unsuccessfully to get him to cough it up. He gets an assist from a female passerby who, trying…
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When Lynn Coffey moved to the tiny mountain hamlet of Love, in 1980, she immediately realized the Appalachian culture was slowly slipping away and needed to be preserved. Without any formal journalistic training, Coffey, who will sign copies of her book at Bookworks in Downtown Staunton on Saturday, Nov. 12, from 2-4 p.m., began talking…
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I’ve known Dickie Bell for more than a decade. And the Dickie Bell that I know, I like a lot. This other Dickie Bell, the one who comes across as a hard-core social and fiscal conservative, I don’t know him that well, but I understand what’s going on there. Back when Dickie first got the…
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More than 150 years ago about 2,000 Irish immigrants changed the face of Augusta County. For eight years they joined with over 100 African-American slaves and, by hand, dug 4,262 feet through the rock of Afton Mountain to built a railroad tunnel. When they were finished in the 1850s, Richmond was connected by railroad to…
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Local Food Hub announced the winners of the 2011 Community Food Awards at an event co-sponsored by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the City of Charlottesville, and Albemarle and Nelson counties. “A Celebration of Growth, Expansion and Success” marked the completion of Local Food Hub’s second year of operation and featured remarks…
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Hamner Theater presents A Life in the Theatre by David Mamet, opening Thursday, Sept. 22 and running through Sunday, Oct. 2. Directed by Boomie Pedersen and featuring Bill LeSueur as Robert and Eamon Hyland as John, A Life in the Theatre has been called a “love letter” to the theater. In 26 intermingled onstage and…
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Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling is no stranger to Downtown Waynesboro. “I have waded this trout steam many times,” said Bolling, an avid fly fisherman, at a Thursday-morning ceremony on the banks of the South River to formally mark the award by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development of a $770,000 grant to Waynesboro…
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On Monday (June 27, 2011), 62 new Virginia State Police troopers will begin their career on patrol in counties and along interstates across the Commonwealth. On Friday (June 24, 2011), the members of the 116th Basic Session will graduate from the Virginia State Police Academy in Richmond. The 62 graduates began their rigorous 37-week training…
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