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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] News flash – Staunton city government’s ongoing efforts to save money will mean some changes at several city street intersections. The traffic lights at a dozen city intersections will be set to flash mode during late-night and early-morning hours beginning the night of Monday, July 28, the city announced today.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Shenandoah Valley is among the reddest parts of red-state America. Tim Russert, God rest his soul, needed a brighter shade for us to get across just how red we are. George W. Bush got 74.4 percent of the vote in Augusta County and Rockingham County in 2004,…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A public hearing scheduled for Oct. 14 will give Virginia residents a chance to weigh in on the request of Virginia Natural Gas to implement a conservation and ratemaking efficiency plan. The $7.5 million plan is designed to assist VNG customers in lowering their energy bills. The company projects a…
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Item by Mary K. Heatwole Bridgewater College presented three Merlin E. and Dorothy Faw Garber Awards for Christian Service during the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference held in Richmond. Receiving the awards at the College’s alumni luncheon on July 13 were Daniel Rudy, a 2008 graduate from Mount Airy, Md., Claire Gilbert Ulrich, a…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You may not have heard the name of the only announced candidate in the Democratic Party 2009 lieutenant-governor race, Jon Bowerbank yet, and if you have, chances are that you heard it in reference to how he has run one election campaign, and he didn’t do it as a Democrat….
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Single-game tickets for two Virginia football games went on sale this morning. Tickets for UVa. home games with Richmond (Sept. 6, $16) and East Carolina (Oct. 11, $35) went on sale at 9 a.m. The Aug. 30 season-opener against Southern Cal is sold out.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Sgt. Tony Shifflett of the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office recently completed the Advanced Police Sniper School in New Canton and finished the course as the “Top Shot” among the 15 attendees.
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] The battle for next year’s Democratic Party nomination is ever-so-quietly heating up. House Democratic Caucus chair Brian Moran seems to have been focusing his attention on cornering the Mark Warner market at the outset of the ’09 nomination race. Moran has some of the big guns from the Warner…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Media General apparently isn’t making enough money at The Daily Progress in Charlottesville to justify spending the “several million dollars of repairs, refurbishing and rewiring” needed to continue long-term operations at its printing plant on West Rio Road. These can’t be good days at the Richmond-based Media General, the parent…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro Rotarian Tracy Aitcheson was installed as district governor for District 7570 in a ceremony held last week at the Waynesboro Country Club. Aitcheson is a 19-year member of the Waynesboro Rotary Club. Aitcheson, 71, is a University of Richmond grad and former dentist who raises purebred Angus cattle on…
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