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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Tim Spears saw two needy children one Christmas 27 years ago. From a humble effort to help those two enjoy a decent Christmas, an effort that has brought Yuletide cheer to more than 7,000 youngsters since was born. “I went to my band – we were playing on the road…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Emmett Hanger is sure of one thing – he hasn’t changed since his first run for elected office in 1979. And if you ask him, if anything has changed in the past three decades, it’s the Republican Party that he has trumpeted since the days when the Valley GOP could…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Biggest Football Game Ever Played is set for Saturday in Charlottesville – but the biggest football game of the opening weekend of the 2007 Football Championship Subdivision playoffs will be going on down the Blue Ridge in Boone, N.C., when the last two I-AA national champs meet in Kidd…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Chris Saxman sees the political battle up ahead as “an uphill sled.” But the Shenandoah Valley legislator isn’t one to shy away from a fight. And no, I’m not talking here about his own dalliance with a run at the Republican Senate nomination in 2008. “John McCain is an American…
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Column by Jim Bishop “You can’t always get what you want “And if you try sometime you find “You get what you need …” – Rolling Stones (1969) There’s something out of kilter, if I stop and think long enough (always a scary prospect), if we only give thanks on one designated day in late…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “That’s going to kill recruiting.” That was my initial reaction to the news from earlier this year that the University of Virginia had decided not to add another year to football coach Al Groh’s contract to ensure that Groh would be at the head of the program past 2010 –…
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Column by Chris Graham You don’t normally see one candidate taken aback at something said by an opponent at a debate. But Arin Sime’s two opponents for the 24th Senate District seat were thrown off by something that he had to say at Monday night’s candidates forum in Waynesboro sponsored by The Augusta Free Press…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Jim Bailey announced his retirement from Augusta County politics earlier this year, leaving the Beverley Manor District seat on the Augusta County Board of Supervisors an open seat. The contenders for the seat – Democrat Lee Godfrey and Republican Jeremy Shifflett – answered questions on the issues of the…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Nancy Sorrells is running for her first re-election to the Riverheads District seat on the Augusta County Board of Supervisors in next month’s general elections. The independent will face the challenge of a Republican Party nominee, farmer Michael Shull, on the Nov. 6 ballot. Sorrells and Shull both talked…
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Story by Jim Bishop Four persons from Lebanon and Laos will reflect on the reality and tragic effects of cluster bombs on their families, communities and countries in a story tour coming to Eastern Mennonite University.
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