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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] NPR’s Carl Kasell will be speaking at Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton on Saturday morning, Jan. 23, from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Kasell is the official judge and scorekeeper for NPR’s weekly news quiz show, “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” For 30 years, Kasell read newscasts for NPR’s daily newsmagazine…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell used the occasion of the visit of President Barack Obama and United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to the Commonwealth on Tuesday to raise attention to the joint interest of McDonnell and Obama in public charter schools. McDonnell has pledged the full support of…
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BRCC group gets out of Haiti Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Mass chaos. People running through the streets ripping their clothes off. “People thought it was the apocalypse, that it was the end of the world,” remembers Rebecca Evans, an accounting professor at Blue Ridge Community College, who led a group of students and faculty…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] The aspiration, “to see myself as others see me,” has, to some extent, come to fruition for Scott Jost of Bridgewater. Jost, an associate professor of art at Bridgewater College, began a project in 2006 he calls “Teaching Through the Lens.” This “work in progress” is on display in…
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Former aide to Del. Lohr among those tapped Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] Attorney General-elect Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II announced his leadership team for the Office of the Attorney General today. In making his appointments, Cuccinelli commented “I, and the citizens of the Commonwealth, are fortunate to have such a talented group of people who…
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Do the data on growth back up conclusions of school redistricting committee? Column by Terry Short Submit guest columns: [email protected] Purpose Statement: “To address increasing enrollment in Westwood Hills Elementary School and changing student/teacher ratios in all elementary school.” – from Recommendation for Redistricting Elementary Schools for the 2010-2011 School Year, Waynesboro Public Schools (12/11/09)…
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Fifth District GOP candidate builds support toward run for party nod Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Fifth District is a living laboratory to Fluvanna County biology teacher Feda Morton, a veteran Republican Party activist seeking the GOP nomination to run for Congress in the Fifth. All Morton has to do over the course of…
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Waynesboro reacts to proposed reconfiguration of city elementary schools Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Westwood Hills to William Perry, then back to Westwood Hills. Two transitions in two years. That’s what Liz Barnes is facing for her son, Josh. “I’m not in the PTO, I’m not as much in the loop as I’d like to…
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Column by Tom Perriello www.perriello.house.gov As we close out 2009, here is a summary of all that we have accomplished during my first year in office. When I was sworn in almost a year ago, our economy was on the brink of collapse. While we still have a long way to go toward complete…
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Column by Tom Perriello www.perriello.house.gov As this year winds to a close, I continue to focus on economic recovery and the fiscal discipline to bring our deficit under control. First, I have once again signed on as co-sponsor of a measure to block members of Congress from receiving automatic pay increases, this time for the…
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