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Letter from Sharon Wright What do Virginia senators John Warner and Jim Webb have in common? What do our past Governors George Allen, Mark Warner and our current governor, Tim Kaine, have in common? What do seven of 11 of our congressmen that represent Virginia at the federal level have in common? All these people…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I would say everything went according to script at this morning’s reorganization meeting of Waynesboro City Council. Tim Williams is mayor, as Frank Lucente told me six weeks ago would be the case. Lucente, meanwhile, is vice mayor, Mike Hamp is the interim city manager, and John Kiger is still…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll Question: What creature comforts could you do without for a year? OK, so I’m a wimp. I can’t imagine life without air conditioning and cable TV and the Internet. And I’m saying this, and I lived the first two years of my life in a house with…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Here’s an idea toward providing a solution to the state’s transportation crisis. Why not get drivers off the roads in congested areas? “We simply can’t pave our way out of this traffic gridlock,” said Bath County Democratic State Sen. Creigh Deeds, who has introduced a trio of measures for consideration…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Most of us agree that Virginia has itself a roads problem. You don’t have to sit in traffic for too long in Northern Virginia or Hampton Roads or Richmond or deal with congestion on U.S. 29 in Charlottesville or Interstate 81 anywhere in Western Virginia to recognize that much. The…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Considering what we’ve had to go through with Michael Vick over the course of the past year, I’m not all that fond of the phrase Don’t have a dog in this fight anymore, but when it comes to the ongoing mess involving the Augusta County GOP, I really don’t have…
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Column by Jim Bishop Scarcely a day goes by in my work that I don’t consult my trusty Webster’s Ninth for help with spelling, punctuation, capitalization or geographic references. Problem with a dictionary, however, is that you need to know how to spell the word in order to locate it. And, once found, the definition(s)…
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Column by Jim Bishop “Dreamin’ . . . I’m always dreamin’ … ’til my dreamin’ comes true …” – Johnny Burnette (1960) “The rest of your life begins today.” Another simple, yet profound statement on the sign in front of Weavers Mennonite Church along U.S. 33 grabbed my attention. I hadn’t thought of this truism…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Maybe Alicia Rimel knows something I don’t. “The news squelched rumors that former City Manager Jerry Gwaltney might return to the job,” Rimel wrote in her story that appeared in Tuesday’s News Virginian about the appointment of assistant city manager Mike Hamp as the interim…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s time for the First Fridays Art Walk this Friday in Downtown Harrisonburg. The art walk runs from 5-7 p.m., and featuers a star-studded lineup again this month.
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Column by Jim Bishop The stage lights came up, applause and cheers erupted, and I stared down on music legends. The Eagles had landed. The incredibly popular band, formed in the early 1970s in Los Angeles, Calif., was in Charlottesville, Va., on its “Long Road Out of Eden” tour. Tickets, though outrageously priced, were available,…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll Question: Have you been victim of racial, gender or sexual-orientation discrimination in the workplace? Stanley Smith is known to his friends as Bubba, and he has a lot of friends – white, black, Latino. He’s like a lot of us in that respect. He’s also a little-league baseball…
