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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.
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It’s the end of the semester for Eastern Mennonite Seminary students. For first-year students, it means one thing – “Christian Tradition” timelines.
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You ask me, Dave Leitao threw Sammy Zeglinski under the bus. When in reality somebody ought to be throwing him under the bus. Everybody who knew what was going on was aware what Leitao was going to do, and that it was going to involve Zeglinski’s backcourtmate Sylven Landesberg. Setting the scene – Auburn up…
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President-elect Barack Obama recently announced an economic-recovery plan that includes a massive effort to make public buildings more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly.
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The other night, I washed down my cholesterol pill with a glass of egg nog. Ahh . . . that most wonderful time of the year is here.
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Tim Kaine’s budget balancing act is earning the Virginia governor critics across the Commonwealth. “While the decisions are tough and certainly not anything that the governor or anybody else would have wished for, the ultimate impact is going to be on the various localities. And the poorest school divisions are going to be among the…
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