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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] OK, have to admit something here. I haven’t read Fahrenheit 451. I know the premise, seems interesting, seems like the kind of book that I would just eat up, since the Cliff’s Notes people say it’s about book burning and information control and other things that get me riled…
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Column by Frank Nolen Submit guest columns: [email protected] In 2007 the General Assembly passed legislation that greatly reduced the ability of the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to set just and reasonable electric rates. The result has been a 60 percent increase in the electric rates paid by customers of the Appalachian Power Company and…
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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] “For to the snow He says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ And to the downpour and the rain, ‘Be strong.’” – Job 37:6 (NASB) Snow, especially when it piles up, complicates our lives at the same time that it simplifies. We should welcome the interruptions that…
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Video Essay by Chris Graham [email protected] AugustaFreePress.com editor Chris Graham wears his heart on his sleeve today. With reports that there will be a challenger in the Waynesboro City Council Ward C race, Chris lays it all out there – the ’10 elections in Waynesboro will be between two competing visions for the future…
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Story by Chris Graham WaynesboroYMCA.com AugustaFreePress.com editor Chris Graham tells the story of Blake Hodge, a Westwood Hills Elementary School first-grader who is regularly scoring baskets in the Waynesboro Family YMCA rec basketball league this winter. Chris talks with Blake, who is legally blind, as well as Blake’s mother and coach, to learn more…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Eastern Mennonite University men’s basketball team is NCAA Tournament-bound for the first time in school history. The Royals (22-4) will also serve as hosts for a pool of games on opening weekend. EMU will play Centre College (Danville, Kent.) in the first round on Friday. Centre was 18-8…
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Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: [email protected] How’s business? You know, at your store. You say you don’t own a store. Sure you do. You and I own a whole chain of stores clear across the Commonwealth. I know that they are sometimes easy to overlook. They are small and we tend to…
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Why are our local school systems going to a job fair when they’re cutting jobs? Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It seems counterintuitive at first glance – to have a job fair to recruit potential new employees when the economic reality that you’re facing has you considering deep and painful cuts to staff….
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Column by Carl Larsen Submit a review: [email protected] Why would Martin Scorsese, probably the world’s most-respected film director, give away the mystery to his latest movie in the very first scene? If you pick up that clue to “Shutter Island,” currently playing at the Regal Staunton Mall Cinema, you’ll just sit there for the…
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Column by Chris DeWald Submit guest columns: [email protected] Neurofeedback is a technique in which the brain is trained to help improve its ability to regulate all bodily functions and to take care of itself. When the brain is not functioning well, evidence of this often shows up in the EEG (electroencephalogram). By challenging the…
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