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Two Bridgewater College alums were elected to the board of trustees at BC last week. James Russell Bruner, Bridgewater class of 1977, is president and chief executive officer of Maersk Inc. and executive vice president of A.P. Moller-Maersk, the largest shipping company in the world. He joined Maersk in 1989 and worked his way up…
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Melissa Fitzgerald never thought she’d be on perhaps the biggest stage in music. “Ever since I was tiny, I would watch this parade, and when I first started playing in marching band in ninth grade I always thought it would be cool to be in one of the marching bands in the parade. But I…
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For the uninitiated, Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene told it like it was in his world on the Washington, D.C., airwaves on WOL during the late 1960s and early 1970s before succumbing to cancer. The ex-con, who described himself in his boss’s word – a miscreant, because it sounded more sophisticated – would no doubt be…
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Column by Erica Gies We turn on the tap, and clean water flows. Most of us take this service for granted because we consider water, necessary for life, a basic right. In fact, this notion stems back to an ancient Roman legal precedent called the public trust doctrine. This fundamental tenet says that crucial natural…
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Item by Mary K. Heatwole Bridgewater College is one of the best colleges and universities in the Southeast, according to The Princeton Review. The New York City-based education services company selected Bridgewater as one of 139 institutions it recommends in its “Best in the Southeast” section on its website feature, 2009 Best Colleges: Region by…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll Question: What creature comforts could you do without for a year? OK, so I’m a wimp. I can’t imagine life without air conditioning and cable TV and the Internet. And I’m saying this, and I lived the first two years of my life in a house with…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Staunton-based Blue Ridge Bells are getting ready for a pair of performances at DisneyWorld in Orlando, Fla., this weekend. The 11-member youth handbell choir will perform at Disney’s Epcot American Adventure Rotunda and at the Florida Hospital Celebration Health event at Disney’s Celebration community on Saturday. The choir is…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Chris Long is OK with the pomp and circumstance that goes with being a projected top-two or top-three pick in the NFL Draft. I say that, and then I think, you know, that maybe he’s not. “The only thing that’s taxing or annoying about it is that I’m not really…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen The uncertainly titled “Definitely, Maybe,” currently playing almost everywhere in the universe, has all the makings of a successful 1940s romantic comedy. And even though most of the movie critics loved it, it’s still definitely, maybe, not so hot. You’ve got a cute guy, some cute gals,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Jeff Ryman got the buzz. Carnegie Hall was on the line. Could he take the call? He knew what it had to be about. And he knew it was going to be amazing news. “I was alone in the choral suite, nobody around. And I sort of felt like I…
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