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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro second baseman Brandon Sizemore had another solid week as the Generals completed their run at the Valley League Southern Division crown. Sizemore, named one of the league’s players of the week for the final week of the regular season, hit .444 with two homers and 10 RBI. The College…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s official – Rockbridge is in the Valley League. The league announced today that the Rockbridge Rapids will join the lineup in 2009. The Rockbridge team will play its games in Lexington at Cap’n Dick Smith Field on the campus of Washington and Lee University.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m sure the power players are going to love their city council spending tens of thousands of dollars on a search firm to lead the process for hiring a new city manager. Oh, yeah. Because they were such big fans of the studies and reports…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] At least one AFP reader doesn’t agree with me that it’s all that bad that the power players in a political group that backed the successful candidates in our recent elections don’t live in Waynesboro. “If they have business interests in the city, I think…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] John Lawrence told me last week that he was interviewed about his interest in running for city council by a group that included Dave Wolfe, Tom Reider and Roger Willetts. Noticeably missing from the list of people leading the effort to run somebody were the…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s hard to get a handle on how $4-a-gallon gas is affecting attendance at Valley League games this summer. I’ve scanned the box scores to try to get some feel, but the best I can say at this point is that the jury is still…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A seven, and then an eight. That’s how many current and former Valley League players were taken in last week’s Major League draft.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I really want to be giggles happy about the news from last night’s city-council meeting that has city council discussing hiring a search firm to hire a new city manager. Really, I do. The talk behind the scenes in the walkup to and the aftermath…
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Story by Scott German Here we go again. With a ton of talent, experience and motivation the Virginia baseball team find themselves in familiar territory. But when May arrives they must let the past be the past and rise to the occasion when it most matters – the postseason. Despite the loss of several key…
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Column by Chris Graham Coaches in American football aren’t so much coaches as they are field generals – who devise twin attacks, one by ground, another by air, with the basic intent of penetrating an opponent’s defenses and otherwise neutralizing their offensive capabilities to the point of being able to achieve ultimate victory. And as…
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