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– Perriello criticizes tobacco tax in SCHIP bill, Wednesday, 1:40 p.m. – Conservation easements top 100,000 acres in Valley, Wednesday, 12:50 p.m. – Treasury announces new restrictions on executive compensation, Wednesday, 12:50 p.m. – House GOP pushing mental-health reforms, Wednesday, 12:50 p.m. – House bill allowing government-sanctioned sectarian prayers at government meetings unconstitutional, ACLU says,…
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Col. Roy F. “Rick” Zinser has assumed the job of president and superintendent of Fishburne Military School. Zinser became the school’s 10th superintendent effective Feb. 1. Zinser had served previously as the president of Massanutten Military Academy in Woodstock, the deputy superintendent, chief of staff and commandant at the New York Military Academy and as…
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Home sales are down, sale prices are down, but as with everything else in life, it’s all relative. “It’s been a rocky year for real-estate sales across the nation and to some extent across Virginia, although I would say Virginia has fared better than everybody else,” said John McClain, a senior fellow at the George…
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Next time you see a car, van or truck driving by you with a government license plate, look closely. Chances are there’s a GSA logo in the corner. GSA is shorthand for the U.S. General Services Administration, quite possibly the largest federal agency you never heard of. But we’re a neighbor and part of your…
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The first episode of The Return of the Maltese Falcon highlights the January “River City Radio Hour” Friday night in Downtown Waynesboro. The four-part serial is a celebration of the Augusta County Big Read for 2009, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammet.
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Ninth District Congressman Rick Boucher and a group of local Democratic committee chairs have jumped on board the Jon Bowerbank for lieutenant governor bandwagon. “Jon Bowerbank is a long-time friend of mine, and I am pleased to endorse his candidacy for lieutenant governor of Virginia,” said Boucher, a Democrat. “As an entrepreneur in Russell County,…
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Circus Maximus plays the palace – the palace being the governor’s mansion in Springfield, Ill. For a man who doesn’t know how to keep his mouth shut, embattled Illinois Gov. “Lightening” Rod Blagojevich (D) is a shrewd genius for his selection of Roland W. Burris to become the Land of Lincoln’s junior senator. Yes, genius, as…
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Sometime this spring – that’s the time frame for having a new economic-development director on board in Waynesboro. “We’ve developed a recruitment profile, and we’re going ahead with advertising after the holidays,” assistant city manager Jim Shaw told me this week, laying out the plan for filling the position left vacant by the departure of…
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City employees working up to 5 p.m. this busy Christmas Eve might be interested to know that I ran into our hardworking mayor this morning, and that he was hard at it.
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President-elect Barack Obama recently announced an economic-recovery plan that includes a massive effort to make public buildings more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly.
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