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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] PUSH: Waynesboro voters continue to send mixed message The River City mirrors America – split right down the middle in the November bond referendum, the voters send a mix of conservatives and progressives to city council in May, thus guaranteeing more 3-2 splits on the issues of…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The subject isn’t evolution, and the barristers aren’t William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. But the upcoming trial of a Staunton adult-video store owner on obscenity charges has some of that Scopes Monkey Trial flavor to it. Doesn’t it? I mean, on the one side, you have the fundamentalists who…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When you’re a TV weatherman, a trip to the local burger place can be a challenge not unlike the 10K races that Eric Pritchett runs when he’s not standing in front of a television screen telling us what Mother Nature has in store for us tomorrow. “What’s it going to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s 20 years for Bob Corso at WHSV-TV3 in Harrisonburg. That wasn’t the plan when Corso came back East. “I never really thought about how long I’d be here, but I didn’t have a plan like OK, I’m going to be in Harrisonburg two years, then I’m going to go…
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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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