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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen The name of novelist Katherine Paterson may draw a blank from many of us adults, but her novels are among the favorites of America’s tween-age girls. The film adaptation of her beautiful and moving Bridge to Terabithia bridges that generation gap.
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Back in the olden days, they just didn’t make teachers that looked like Cate Blanchett. For instance, my own third-grade teacher, Mrs. Odel, cruised up and down the aisles like a great grey battleship wrapped in a blue-and-white polka dot dress. Bad kids got whacked with a…
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop It wasn’t my idea of the best start on the new year. Here I was, feeling on edge on the edge of the examining table in the Rockingham Memorial Hospital Emergency Room. At 4:30 a.m. With a stabbing pain in the right area of my chest. My blood pressure…
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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] In a subtle, pleated-pants way, golf has potential for those transcendent moments when we feel larger than life, when we go beyond our personal limits. It’s very rare, though, that achievements on the golf course rise to heroic. In my mind there was only Ben Hogan…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham You see a Confederate-flag bumper sticker on a truck in a parking lot or on the highway, and already you have some ideas in your mind as to the identity of the person who put it there. “Nowadays, you’re not going to see a $30,000 SUV going down the…
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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] I recently started fooling around with a keyboard. I say “fooling around” because it would not be fair to say that I’m playing music, or anything that even vaguely recalls music, except when I deftly push the demo button and crank out selections from “Ave Maria”…
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Story by Chris Graham David Harker knows he shouldn’t be here. “Most of the prisoners that returned home, over 600, were repatriated when they said the Paris Peace Accord. Most of them were pilots shot down over North Vietnam. About 150 or so of us were captured in the South. And only about a third…
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(This is the final installment in a six-part series on The Valley Responds, an effort that links the Shenandoah Valley with residents of Long Beach, Miss.) Helping school children return to classes. Assisting an elderly couple in efforts to rebuild their home. Clearing land so that churches may resume services … The rebuilding process…
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(This is the second installment in a six-part series on The Valley Responds, an effort that links the Shenandoah Valley with residents of Long Beach, Miss.) In Long Beach, Miss., children celebrated Halloween just like most children here in Virginia. At school, the children were outside getting their faces painted – with witches and…
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Story by Chris Graham Russ Potts is running for governor as an independent – to the consternation of Republican Party officials in Richmond and elsewhere in the Old Dominion. The state party asked Potts to resign his Virginia Senate seat – and declared that Potts is no longer a member of the GOP. Potts, for…
