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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…
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Column by Jim Bishop “To be loved, to be loved, Oh, what a feeling, To be loved …” – The late Jackie Wilson If things improve with age, then you’ve just about reached perfection. This was one of the more encouraging messages received a year ago amid a larger number of birthday greeting reminders of…
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Yeah, I know, invoking “Field of Dreams” in a piece examining the economic aspects of a proposed $20 million baseball stadium is beyond cheesy. But I do it to try to make you consider something that you might not otherwise. Namely, that the whole idea rests on the notion that a Downtown Waynesboro baseball stadium…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] This has been coming for some time. You could say dating back to the walkup to the 2007 Republican Party primary that saw Scott Sayre challenge Emmett Hanger for the 24th District GOP nomination, though I think it was significantly before that. The discord between Hanger, who held off Sayre’s…
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Story By Erin Gutzwiller In the small town of Bridgewater sits a small private college. It is a college that is affiliated with the huge church on top of the hill, known as the Church of the Brethren. According to academic-affairs dean Carol Scheppard, “Bridgewater focuses on the quality of education, introducing students to the…
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Column By Erin Gutzwiller As I loaded my suitcase and blanket into my roommate’s car, the realization of the 14-hour drive ahead began to set in. But that’s not the only thought that crossed my mind; I realized that this was my very last spring break. This was the last time that my friends and…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Rick Howell remembers asking Sam Rasoul about his campaign fund-raising efforts last summer when he worked for the Sixth District Democratic Party congressional nomination candidate as his campaign manager. And he remembers that he didn’t like the answer that he was given. “I felt that Sam was rather vague with…
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Column by Crystal Graham [email protected] I just called and voted for local “American Idol” contestant Colton Berry about a half dozen times, and I got through the first time, every time. From past experience, this could be a bad sign for the young talent from Fishersville. I voted for Colton not just because he is…
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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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