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jIt’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas – only earlier than ever. This year, area commercial radio station WSVO, Mix 93.1 FM,” went to an all-Christmas music format before Thanksgiving. WJDV, “Lite 96.1 FM,” followed suit on Thanksgiving Day. From Bing Crosby’s 1942 rendering of “White Christmas” to a street-corner harmony version from 1954…
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“Familiar Strangers” is set to debut in Court Square Theater in Downtown Harrisonburg this weekend. Which meant the movie had to get to Court Square Theater. And that somebody had to get it there. “We’re on the road. We’re nowhere near the end of the road,” producer Barry Sisson said on the phone from a…
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We all knew that we were on the verge of an economic downturn. I was selling one approach to dealing with what was to come – redoubling efforts in the economic-development sphere with an eye toward working to attract new industry in recognition of the apparent fact that the plant on the South River overlooking…
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In short, everything. Invista, and its predecessor, DuPont, is the last significant vestige of the city’s once-glittering manufacturing economy. According to figures from the Virginia Employment Commission, Waynesboro began 2008 with around 2,100 manufacturing jobs, with roughly 1,100 of those being at the Invista plant, either directly employed by Invista or by a contractor providing…
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Another 335 employees at the Invista plant in Waynesboro are being laid off as part of a company plan to idle part of the local facility’s fibers plant in a move that would seem at first glance to be a sign of the times of the ongoing global economic downturn. But is it the global…
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Jerry Ratcliffe doesn’t think you have a right to say your piece. What you look at as being an American type that’s used to being able to share an opinion that might run counter to what he’s thinking at the time, he looks at as “negativity.” Funny thing, this “negativity,” which is so bad that…
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Alright, I’ll bite. And I apologize for calling you a whackjob. So you’re saying that Barack Obama ain’t one of us, and that we ought to do something before he takes the oath of office. Make your case. Um … You’re saying that he hasn’t produced a valid U.S. birth certificate?
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Fatimah Husein, a philosophy professor at Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, will speak twice at Eastern Mennonite University today.
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I walked into the post office to buy stamps to mail my Christmas greetings. “What denomination?” the clerk asks. “Errr, Mennonite,” I replied. Ooooh, no, Mr. Jim! Isn’t it bad enough that only a few days into the Advent season there’s still leftover turkey in the refrigerator and area radio stations have already played “The…
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I’ve been going back and forth on the proposed Big Three bailout, and right now I’m at No, bad idea. And here’s why – and why I think I’m going to stay on No, bad idea, for the duration. They’re not where they are because of bad luck or the more general economic downturn. They’re…
