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– Unemployment in Waynesboro at 7.9 percent, 8:05 p.m. – Moran releases Green Virginia plan, 12:50 p.m. – ACLU says bills would violate religious freedoms, 12:50 p.m. – President Obama on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act bill signing, 10:37 a.m. – More feel good about direction of country, 9:08 a.m. – State issues…
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Taylor Wilde went from being out of a job to being the face of women’s wrestling in a year’s time. Not bad for a hockey gal from Canada. “Completely surreal. It really was the pinnacle of everything I’ve done up to this point,” said Wilde of her three-month reign as the TNA Women’s Champion last…
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It’s just words, isn’t it? “That’s so gay.” “He’s gay.” “She’s a lesbian.” Kids say them, they don’t mean anything. Pay attention, and you can still hear the crowd singing “The Good Ol’ Song,” to the tune of “Auld Lang Syne,” after a touchdown at a University of Virginia football game. “We Come from Old…
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When I was 17, I was barely able to say the word “campaign.” Matthew Whitfield has already worked on his generation’s most important political campaign, and the Robert E. Lee senior is really just getting started. “We thought we could make a difference if we worked at it, and it started snowballing from there,” said…
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Home sales are down, sale prices are down, but as with everything else in life, it’s all relative. “It’s been a rocky year for real-estate sales across the nation and to some extent across Virginia, although I would say Virginia has fared better than everybody else,” said John McClain, a senior fellow at the George…
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In 1854, Henry David Thoreau observed that the mass of men live lives of quiet desperation. Whether he was right or wrong, we’ve certainly made tons of movies with that same quiet desperation as an underlying theme. “Revolutionary Road,” nominated for a trio of Oscars and still playing at the Regal Harrisonburg 14, is set…
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The project to replace a city-owned brick wall that has been connected for nearly 40 years to a private Downtown Waynesboro commercial building might be getting a jumpstart. City manager Mike Hamp told Waynesboro City Council at its monthly work session Wednesday night that he should be prepared to make a recommendation regarding what to…
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He didn’t have to say much more. “My priority is my wife,” Jim Critzer told me when I asked him about his decision to sell the Waynesboro Generals, which he had almost singlehandedly saved from oblivion a decade ago, back when it looked like the Valley League original might be moved out of town.
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Gaza 2009. A scene of almost incalculable tragedy. Body count: Some 1,300 Palestinians, 13 Israelis. On one side of the border massive death, brutal destruction and unceasing terror rain down from the skies on a civilian population with nowhere to flee for safety. Untold misery and despair on the ground for men, women, and children…
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It’s not an explosion or anything, but even a small growth in loans in this economy is news.
