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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Historian Ann Miller will present a lecture entitled “Development of County Road Systems and Their Impact on Early Settlement” at the final event in the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society’s Spring Lecture Series. The May 8 lecture will begin at 7 p.m. and will be held at the Shenandoah Valley Folk Art…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Creigh Deeds lives 85 miles from Charlottesville. That’s how far I am from Richmond, give or take a mile or two. Can you imagine a legislative district that would somehow link Waynesboro and Richmond? Yeah. Not much of a community of interest there. Right? But Deeds represents Charlottesville in the…
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Op-Ed by Bruce Elder The city of Staunton recently unanimously passed a resolution requesting that the governor and the General Assembly of Virginia strongly consider an interest-rate cap on consumer loans. The resolution was distributed to every city, town and county government in the Commonwealth.
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Although there are a few minor cracks in the foundation, “Fracture,” currently playing E.B.S. (everywhere but Staunton), is too good a movie to miss. Seventy-year-old Sir Anthony Hopkins and 27-year-old Ryan Gosling play, respectively, a clever cuckold who murders his wife and an arrogant young lawyer who…
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Story by Chris Graham Nancy Sorrells has already hit the ground running in her work on behalf of Augusta County residents. The Riverheads District supervisor-elect met on Wednesday with Riverheads District school-board member-elect Chad Shomo to talk about issues of importance to Southern Augusta County residents. “We also wanted to try to begin to build…
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Story by Chris Graham Candidates for the Riverheads District seat on the Augusta County Board of Supervisors hear the question every day. What do you think we should do to preserve our agricultural heritage here in Augusta County?
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