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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).
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Column by David Cox “Support our troops!” If we learned anything from Vietnam, it’s that, regardless of what one thinks of a war, one can, should, and must support the men and women who fight it. And, let me add, their families. Those men and women, and their families, are going to need a lot…
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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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