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The regular 2011 session of the General Assembly began on the second Wednesday of January. The day was full of pomp and circumstance and some matters of substance. We swore in a new state senator, Bill Stanley, from Franklin County, who was elected to fill the seat of newly elected Congressman Robert Hurt. The Courts…
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Bath County State Sen. Creigh Deeds announced today in an e-mail that he will run for re-election to his 25th District seat. “I am running for re-election because I am not finished,” said Deeds, who was the Democratic Party nominee for governor in 2009, losing that race in a landslide defeat to Republican Bob McDonnell….
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The River City Radio Hour will return for its fourth season with the second annual outdoor performance and street dance on Friday, Aug. 20 at 7 p.m. The 500 block of West Main will again be closed and the Radio Hour will perform in front of the Wayne Theatre marquee. The 7 p.m. Radio Hour…
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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] I hardly recognized the place. But then, it was Laurelville Camp with a Rt. 2, Mt. Pleasant, Pa., address when I had my main associations as acamper, staff member for two summers and a counselor. Today, it’s Laurelville Mennonite Church Center to reflect the broader range…
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Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: [email protected] How’s business? You know, at your store. You say you don’t own a store. Sure you do. You and I own a whole chain of stores clear across the Commonwealth. I know that they are sometimes easy to overlook. They are small and we tend to…
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– School Board meeting moved back – Bridgewater College receives $124K scholarship grant – EMU students win counseling ethics competition – Farm, rural business profitability focus of upcoming forum Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] School Board meeting moved back: The Waynesboro Public Schools will postpone the Tuesday, Feb. 9, Waynesboro School Board Meeting. The meeting…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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