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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] For three-plus hours that October night, it had seemed that Virginia Tech had played its way back into the national-title picture with a convincing win over then-#2 Boston College. And then … “Boston College has scarred me for life. I don’t celebrate a win until it’s zero-zero-zero reading on the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You can be a mentor – yes, I’m talking to you. “A lot of people think they aren’t adequate, that they can’t be a mentor. Well, let me tell you something. When I was a kid, I had a mentor who was my teacher – and I never thought of…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Being somewhat long of tooth myself, I joined the holiday throngs to see “No Country for Old Men” with some caution. Afterwards, I knew it was no country for anybody else, either.
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Essay by Donna Miller I often wonder why people want to live so close to each other. I grew up in the mountainous area of Bath County, and our closest neighbor was about one-half mile away. My favorite spot on our property was a wooded area, partially cleared, with a creek running through it. The…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Cathy Campbell wants to learn more about how African-Americans in rural Virginia facing tough end-of-life decisions go about making those decisions – so she’s been hitting the road a lot lately to ask folks to share their wisdom.
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I complain a lot in this column – really, a column should be about 95 percent complaining, and 5 percent finding tearjerking stories to show folks that the writer has a heart. But I digress – because this is one of the 19 of 20…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Tim Kaine knows how important agriculture is to the Virginia economy. CNBC doesn’t – but we can forgive them. I mean, they’re based in New York. Ahem.
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk! That’s all that Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise, Robert Redford, and Andrew Garfield do for two-thirds of “Lions for Lambs,” now playing at the downtown Dixie in Staunton. And if you’re still feeling guilty about skipping that last exam in Political Science 101,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Two books in 12 months – and he’s working on a case that could easily lead to a third. But Staunton Commonwealth’s attorney Ray Robertson is too busy with the particulars of the saga involving the prosecution of After Hours Video on obscenity charges to worry about the literary aspects…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte Last week, newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy addressed a Joint Session of Congress during his first official visit to Washington. Upon his election in May of this year, President Sarkozy immediately reached out to the United States, signaling his desire to end the tension that has existed between our two…
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