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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Some random thoughts on what’s going on in sports these days … – How do you like the way UVa. is selling its football packages next year? You can buy Southern Cal tickets without having to buy season tickets now, but you have to buy them…
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Op-Ed by Shepherd Bliss Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more Petroleum supplies slowly dwindle as demand rapidly soars. So the prices of gasoline and oil that supply modern societies with their industrial production of food will go up, up and away. A radically different future than the oil-energized 20th century is dawning. Let’s face…
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Item by Jim Bishop By popular demand, Eastern Mennonite University will repeat its online course on “Basics of Parish Nursing,” June 23-July 28, 2008. EMU’s Adult Degree Completion Program sponsors the course, which is open to any registered nurse or upper-level nursing student in an RN nursing education program. Parish nursing in the United States…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A bipartisan group of United States senators including Virginia Democratic Sen. Jim Webb is calling on the United States Postal Service to issue the Purple Heart stamp on a permanent basis. “This is a most appropriate way to honor past and future recipients of our nation’s oldest military decoration,” said…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Valley Music Academy is presenting Student Music Recitals on May 17 at 7 p.m. at Main Street United Methodist Church in Waynesboro. Also on the schedule at the academy is a May 31, 7 p.m., Valley Voices and Jazz Ensemble Concert at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in Waynesboro. That…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Ninety thousand dollars to raise, a 36-minute piece in Latin to learn. These kids are going to earn their Carnegie Hall stripes. “It’s hard to believe that we’re almost here,” said Amber Long, a sophomore member of the Waynesboro Concert Choir, which is leaving for New York on Friday for…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It was hard enough getting Kitty Lough to go into an independent-living facility, harder still to get her to accept the change in her lifestyle. She never would have guessed back then that she’d miss it as much as she does now. “She’s finally gotten over the stage of saying,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] She wasn’t trying to be Rosa Parks. “We were just tired of the separate-but-equal thing. Because it certainly wasn’t separate-but-equal,” said Rita Wilson, who is retiring from Staunton City Council on June 30 after 16-plus years on the job, and who a generation ago made her first foray into public…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte With spring under way, warmer weather is returning, the days are growing longer, and everything is in bloom. Unfortunately, the arrival of spring also kicks off a second and largely unwelcomed season. This season is marked by piles of forms, confusing instructions, and the prospect of turning your hard-earned money over…
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Story By Erin Gutzwiller Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reached the conclusion that the only way we could change America was without violence. Andrew Young was among those who joined King, who was assassinated 40 years ago this week, in the fight to extend basic civil rights to African Americans. Young was welcomed with open…
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