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A pay raise? In a time of economic downturn? When we have a hiring freeze in place to try to keep city spending down? How dare those liberals on city council propose such a thing! And how brazen! I mean, it’d be one thing if we were talking about $1,000 a year across the board,…
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The next time Mike Groh has an offense ranked in the top 100 in I-A will, unfortunately for Virginia fans, be the first time. And keep in mind, there are 119 I-A football teams, so we’re only talking about cracking the top 83 percent of offenses here. But don’t be Mark Berman of The Roanoke…
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The series proved so popular, it’s returning early 2009 for another round. Eastern Mennonite University will again team up with the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce and the Shenandoah Valley Small Business Development Center to offer six “Seminars in Organizational Leadership” aimed at helping persons sharpen their leadership in a rapidly-changing environment. Topics will range from…
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It’s being sold as a family comedy, and certainly the approach to “Familiar Strangers” is lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek. But don’t let the ad campaign mislead you. The movie, brought to the big screen by the Charlottesville-based Cavalier Films and currently playing at The Visulite in Staunton, has a depth to it that you don’t normally…
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More than likely, by the time you read this message, the decision will have been rendered. After months of posturing, positioning and speculating, the question will have an answer. Voters will have voted, nasty ads will have subsided, and nightly news will be filled with something other than the latest political nuance or candidate slipup…
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“What are you doing, Bruce? Are you daydreaming?” Waynesboro Vice Mayor Frank Lucente asked City Councilman Bruce Allen during a break in Friday’s City Council planning session as Allen gazed out a window from the council chambers in the Charles T. Yancey Municipal Building toward the corner of Main Street and Wayne Avenue. “Thinking,” Allen…
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Hey! Rub-a-dub-dub! Ho! Rub-a-dub-dub! Three men in a tub, And who do you think were there? The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, And all of them gone to the Democratic fair! The Virginia gubernatorial race is on! It’s probably the best field of Democratic candidates running for governor in the history of the party….
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Dale Spitzer will no longer be coaching football at Fort Defiance High School, bringing to a conclusion the absolute longest endgame in the history of high-school sports in the Shenandoah Valley. It’s been so long that I have long since lost the year – I think it was 2003, though time has eroded the exact…
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It was a simulation, but the experience felt authentic and “immensely practical” for the three Eastern Mennonite University student participants. So realistic, in fact, that Ashley Hevener, Kaleb Wyse and Joel Kratzer were selected as the top team for their presentation made at the annual convention of Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) held Nov. 6-9,…
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It isn’t just that Republicans got torched in the ’08 presidential election and the House and Senate elections to a point where President-elect Barack Obama has the clearest governing mandate since the first President Bush and an outside shot at a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate that would give his administration virtual carte blanche for…
