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The Grinch came within an inch of ruining Christmas for my wife and me. I blame no one but myself. I’m embarrassed to give a public disclosure of this nightmare before Christmas, but if my grievous error spares at least one other person from a similar experience, it’s worth it. In retrospect, the timing was…
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2008 is now another chapter in life’s annals. Seems like just yesterday, I opened my 2008 Dave Barry desk calendar and put it in the space reserved for such important data/date managers on the kitchen counter. Now, I’m about to discard (actually, recycle) the plastic housing that held the sacred writ – and helped jumpstart…
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Looking back on it, wouldn’t it have made sense to have started doing something about our transportation-infrastructure limitations, I don’t know, maybe a few years ago when the economy was relatively purring and the dollars were available to address the traffic jams in NoVa and Hampton Roads and the clogged arteries inhibiting commerce statewide?
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Bobbie Lawson still doesn’t sleep the night before the first day of school. “I think as long as I have that energy, then, that helps a lot,” said Lawson, a fifth-grade teacher at Bessie Weller Elementary School in Staunton, the 2008 Staunton Teacher of the Year.
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“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” currently showing at the Colonial Mall in Staunton, is a curious film, indeed. Lengthy, slow, hypnotic, dark, and always with the intriguing question hanging in the somber theater air: What would happen to someone who was born old and gradually grew young?
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I really wanted to see … well, anything else. “The Wrestler.” “Slumdog Millionaire.” “Doubt.” But my young nieces were in tow, so we had to think a little differently. Whicb is how we ended up at Colonial Mall-Staunton on Christmas Day watching Adam Sandler in “Bedtime Stories,” a surprisingly decent holiday movie even in spite…
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One thing is for sure when you ask Creigh Deeds a question. He’s going to give you an answer, and it’s not going to be one of those politician answers where you think afterward that he really didn’t give too much away. “The things that I talk about aren’t things that people have told me…
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I’ve been yammering endlessly about how Waynesboro needs to get ahead of the green-collar-job curve. The folks at Vector Industries have been doing more than yammering endlessly. “At the beginning of the year, when I was doing my yearly budget, I realized that I was spending more and more on utilities, and I was trying…
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It had a familiar feel – kind of like, well, last year. JMU raced to a big lead only to see Seton Hall chip away, chip away, chip away. “Last year we had pretty much the same lead, like a 20-point lead, and it went away real quick,” said Kyle Swanston, a senior who was…
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Bad news – the United Way of Greater Augusta is looking at a potential 30 percent hit on its fundraising campaign for 2008-2009 due to the slumping macroeconomy. Worse news – that means possible cuts for area agencies that receive United Way funding toward their day-to-day operations.
