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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It wasn’t that there was much left downtown, but Phil Lemons knew that whatever traffic there had been before the West End took off with the opening of Wal-Mart in Waynesboro in 2003 was pretty much going, going, gone. “Having experienced it in other towns, whenever a shopping center comes…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The game plan for 24-year-old Adam Prickett going into his Mixed Martial Arts in the Valley IV fight with Eric Ohene-Bekoe had been to keep things at standup as much as possible. But the Verona man went back to his training at Valley Chute Box in Harrisonburg and decided to…
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Column by Jim Bishop “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it.” – Jeremiah 6:16 As 2007 nears its close and a new year is about to unfold, I’m impressed anew – how one looks at things makes a world of attitudinal…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] How do you stop a team that scores 42 points a game and racks up 476 yards a game through the air? “It’s going to be a challenge. And I’ve never shied away from a challenge,” Virginia linebacker Clint Sintim said of the challenge that awaits the Cavaliers next week…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I have been threatening since the summer – when Al Groh broke down for me how simple football really is – to write a book of The Wisdom of Groh. Backstory: At the ACC Football Kickoff, I asked the Virginia football coach a question about…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] What if we all up and promised to continue buying as much stuff as we do now the rest of the year, and just left Christmas and Hanukkah and the other spiritual holidays to be spiritual holidays? I know it’s fun taking part in the retail orgy…
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Story by Jim Bishop Brenda C. Fairweather wanted to respond in some way to a hostage crisis in Russia in which more than 300 civilians eventually lost their lives. On Sept. 1, 2004, terrorists linked to the Chechen independence struggle took more than 1,200 people hostage in a school in the town of Beslan. Shootings…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Seven wins. That was all JMU could muster on the hardwood in 2006-2007. So for the Dukes to have recorded a seventh win in 2007-2008 on Dec. 19, well, that was reason for celebration. “It’s a good thing – on every level,” James Madison coach Dean Keener said after his…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Divorce reform, restrictions on abortion and continued funding for abstinence-only sex education. The Family Foundation of Virginia and the Valley Family Forum have a healthy appetite – but whether they can fill their plate in the 2008 Virginia General Assembly remains to be seen given the changes in the composition…
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Best Seat in the House by Chris Graham [email protected] Two questions have my attention right now regarding Michael Vick. One, was 23 months enough for leading a dogfighting ring and personally participating in the executions of several dogs that had been deemed not up to standards to complete in the bloodsport? Two, is 23 months going to…
