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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So I wasn’t the only one new to fundraising campaigns in the room at yesterday’s local United Way of Greater Augusta campaign kickoff. “When I consider the huge number of people who depend upon the services supported by United Way, and the agencies and organizations that partner with the United…
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Moving Forward column by Chris Graham [email protected] This is one of the more difficult columns that I’ve found myself having to write. I’ve been troubled in recent days by a run of comments on our website advancing slurs on Barack Obama that have me wondering if what we do here at the AFP is even…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] My in-box was hopping Friday evening with forwards of the e-mail from Anne Kilkenny of Wasilla, Alaska, which you might recognize as the town made famous by former mayor-turned-vice-presidential-nominee Sarah Palin. Seems that e-mail trees can and do make their way to Greater Augusta. “You should check this out –…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] As much as many of us can’t stand the TV show “American Idol,” there’s a reason to thank Simon and Paula and Randy and Ryan and the crooners. The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Network announced yesterday that it has received a $100,000 grant to fight child hunger in the…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] THE PALIN CALL STILL BOTHERS ME: But what do I know? If they’d vetted her as well as they had the others, and then the ethics investigation and the Bridge to Nowhere line that doesn’t make sense given that she took the money and ran anyway and the, ahem, family…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s looking like Tropical Storm Hanna is going to take a track that will have its eye pass over the Hampton Roads area sometime Saturday, bringing some much-needed rain to the Shenandoah Valley, but sparing a more direct and potentially disastrous hit to the mountain west. “We’re not looking for…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] “Sarah Palin represents everything they hate,” conservative radio host Laura Ingraham told an audience at the Republican National Convention this week. Which piqued my interest, because I’m guessing that I’m one of those they that she was referring to – a Democrat, a member of the news media. Come…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Local emergency-services officials are keeping their eyes on the Atlantic as what is now Tropical Storm Hanna makes its way up the Eastern Seaboard toward a possible rendezvous with the Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia this weekend. “We haven’t gotten any impact statements from the Weather Service or VDEM. The…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Jim Gilmore standing at the podium in Glen Maury Park in Buena Vista at the foot of the Blue Ridge pulled a piece of paper from his pocket. A burly, hirsute man wearing a form-fitting Gilmore T-shirt handed the news reporter standing next to me a similarly-sized paper…
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