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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The New Jersey Turnpike in the Shenandoah Valley. That’s what critics of the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Interstate 81 widening plan envision happening if the engineers get their wishes. “For us, our mission is to protect farms, forests, open spaces and cultural heritage – and this is impacting all of…
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Column by Jim Bishop What is love? Five feet of heaven and a ponytail … That was The Playmates’ vision in their 1960 ditty, but this is 2008. Tunesmiths have crafted considerably different concepts of this most basic of all emotions over time: Love can make you happy … love is a battlefield … love…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Moving Waynesboro Forward – The Official Chris Graham for Waynesboro City Council Website Listen to Chris Graham’s announcement speech. After 12 years of reporting the news, I’m now making it. “I have asked you all to be here today so that I can begin with you on a new…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The first thing that came to mind for me upon hearing details of the plan at James Madison University to spend $52 million to add 10,000 seats, including luxury boxes, to Bridgeforth Stadium was … Somebody’s angling to move up to I-A football soon. I asked Jeff Bourne about this…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] How well do you think that you know yourself? For example, about your racial biases – of course, you don’t have any racial biases. You’re color-blind. Really? Take this test – you can be done in around 10 minutes, give or take – and get back to us.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Football is an expensive sport to get into – from cleats to pads to helmets, and that’s just the start of it. “The NFL realizes that it’s really important for the health of football in this country that the youth of the United States have to have opportunities to play…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Amid a backdrop of men of various sizes and numbers of tattoos alternatively kicking and punching the air and occasionally a trainer wielding oversized protective gloves, the almost preternatural calm of Tyler Moyer stood out to me. At least what I was reading was calm. I soon found out that…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Bill Bolling hitched his horse to the Mitt Romney presidential wagon back in the summer. And he’s enjoying the ride. “I endorsed Gov. Romney back in July. I felt then based on three meetings with him that he was our best candidate and the right guy for the job. I’ve…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Imagine not knowing where your next meal is coming from. For a growing number of families in the Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia, this isn’t something that is too hard to conjure up in the mind. Hunger is a reality in our area – yes, even here, in the robust…
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Column by Jim Bishop While everyone else is decking the halls and wrecking the walls, yours truly needs to climb up on the rooftop and unclog my Chinese chimney so Santa won’t catch the Hong Kong flue (I’m well-sooted for the job).
