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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop The pastoral scene replays gently in my mind’s eye. The Bishop family car makes a slow turn around the bend of George’s Run Road to unveil the panoramic view that this youngster waited impatiently for five long hours to see. The Dayton homestead, nestled in the heart of Fairview…
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Column by Chris Graham Just when you think the Waynesboro political scene couldn’t get any weirder … A group comes forward and says that Lorie Smith needs to recuse herself from further votes on the stormwater improvements that are in line to begin later this year because her husband is now in charge of overseeing…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham “Really,” Virginia football coach Al Groh said the other day, addressing reporters after a UVa. football practice, “the issue of hydration occurs before the issue of dehydration occurs.” That is … well, it’s either profound, or I don’t know what profound is. Let’s look past for…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham As you probably don’t know, my TV show was recently canceled. (Repeat after me: Aw-w-w-w-w!) Yes, it was tragic. I guess.
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Column by David Cox What a mess this abusive-driver fee fiasco is revealing. Legislators who, just a few months ago, boasted of their great new transportation bill are now disavowing it.
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Story by Chris Graham Brent Finnegan waited for a while to see if anybody was going to step up to offer the kind of local-news website that he’d seen in other locales in Virginia and across the United States. And then one day he realized something – nobody was volunteering.
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Story by Laura Lehman Amstutz Assignments completed while in seminary often wind up stuffed into a box or placed in a file, but for Christine Nafziger, one of her seminary projects became a way to share her gifts in music and her knowledge of prayer with others. Nafziger, a 2006 Eastern Mennonite Seminary graduate originally…
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Column by David Cox As the political pendulum swings inexorably and (sooner or later) inevitably back towards the Democrats, I hope that we all have learned a few realities of life that tend to get forgotten, by one party, the other, or both.
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Story by Chris Graham Four years ago, Nancy Sorrells was the political outsider looking in at an uphill battle to win a seat on the Augusta County Board of Supervisors. Today Sorrells is the old pro – OK, not exactly.
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop “Somethin’s happenin’ here, What it is ain’t exactly clear …” – Buffalo Springfield (1967) These are times not unlike other times, not that I’ve lived in a previous century and can say this with surety, and in fact am thankful that I am living in the year of our…
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