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Virginia Tech head football coach Frank Beamer, along with running backs coach Billy Hite, announced Thursday that redshirt freshman Ryan Williams (Manassas, Va.) has earned the starting job at tailback for Saturday’s season opener against Alabama in Atlanta.
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Former Waynesboro economic-development director Meghan Williamson has signed on as the interim executive director of the Staunton Community Creative Fund, a microlending-focused small-business-development nonprofit that launched last year. Williamson stepped down from the economic-development job in Waynesboro in August. The city has yet to name a successor, and isn’t likely to have anybody heading its…
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Column by William Owens Jr. History is rarely reflected upon by Obama or included in his stump speeches unless it is biographical. Why? Obama thinks we need to redistribute wealth, and history has shown it does not work (just ask Eastern Europe). Should Obama cite Marx or any other socialist philosophers he subscribes to, history…
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Column by William Owens Jr. Historic opportunities deserve much praise and much pause. Americans should laud the possibility of the first Black American president, but they should also contemplate the qualities and vision of that prospective president; and more importantly what these would mean for the potential of another Black American president. I ask the…
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Column by William Owens Jr. www.blackarc.org In a crisis situation, people without a North Star are reactive. Unable to proactively remedy a situation, they desperately fall back on old themes, old playbooks and old mentalities that worked in the past. As John McCain continues to surge in the polls, a panicked Barack Obama will once…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I’ve never seen Tim Williams nervous. I mean, he sings in front of large crowds, he benchpresses 300 pounds in the gym, and the guy doesn’t flinch. I don’t know that he was terribly nervous today, except that the usually stoic and reserved Williams was working the room before the…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Tim Williams was unanimously elected mayor, but the vote for vice mayor was the first in what we can assume will be a series of 3-2 votes from the new Waynesboro City Council. Frank Lucente was elected vice mayor in a party-line vote. Lorie Smith was defeated in her bid…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Everybody seems to want Gregg Williams to be the next Washington Redskins coach. I guess what everybody really wants, then, is for the ‘Skins to slide back into mediocrity. I’m being blunt here, but also accurate – when you look at the NFL head-coaching record…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNERS: Frank Lucente and Tim Williams join bond parade I’m calling them winners here not related to the politics of the issues involving bonds for a new West End fire station and improvements to the city library and the city stormwater system, because frankly my view on…
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Item by Chris Graham If you have to find a fill-in, Mary Chapin Carpenter isn’t a bad one to get lined up and ready to go. Carpenter will perform at the Fortune Williams Music Festival in Staunton on Sunday – filling in for Billy Joe Shaver, who had to cancel his scheduled appearance for medical…
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