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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] White House historian Dr. William Seale will be the keynote speaker at the third annual Wilson/Woodrow/Bolling/Axson First Families Reunion next week. Seale’s talk, “The Wilsons of the White House,” will be delivered on Friday, May 9, at 4 p.m. on the Emily Smith Terrace at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Augusta County Democrats elected 11 delegates to represent the local party at the Democratic Party State Convention on June 14. Six are pledged to support Barack Obama at the convention – Tamara Kincaid, Elizabeth La Grua, Tom Long, Riley Murray, Starke Smith and Sherry Stanley. Five are committed to Hillary…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It was hard enough getting Kitty Lough to go into an independent-living facility, harder still to get her to accept the change in her lifestyle. She never would have guessed back then that she’d miss it as much as she does now. “She’s finally gotten over the stage of saying,…
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Yeah, I know, invoking “Field of Dreams” in a piece examining the economic aspects of a proposed $20 million baseball stadium is beyond cheesy. But I do it to try to make you consider something that you might not otherwise. Namely, that the whole idea rests on the notion that a Downtown Waynesboro baseball stadium…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Just last week, that big Golden Gate up yonder creaked open, and Charlton Heston was admitted to Movie Star Heaven. Naturally, he received a standing ovation from the ghosts of William S. Hart, Douglas Fairbanks, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Gary Cooper and Kirk Douglas (who is not…
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Item by Jim Bishop It’s an invigorating breath – two, actually – of spring. The Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir will present its 16th annual concerts 7 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 12 and 3 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 13, in Lehman Auditorium at Eastern Mennonite University. The Preparatory Choir, with 37 children ages 8-11 directed by Joy Anderson,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s one thing to learn from a book or a lecturing professor. It’s another entirely to get your hands dirty learning something the hard way. Washington and Lee University wants to give its law students the experience of what it’s really like to do hands-on lawyering. “The idea is that…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Teens ages 15 to 18 can apply now for a position in the Shenandoah National Park Youth Conservation Corps program. Applications for the program are being accepted through the middle of April for the program, which provides jobs and educational experiences to teens who work to maintain park trails, roads,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The pundits want to paint Virginia blue, or at the least purple. Creigh Deeds isn’t convinced that a new crayola is necessary just yet. “People that say that Virginia is blue, or Virginia is purple, haven’t spent too much time campaigning in Augusta County. You know what I’m saying? Or…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I hate to agree with Jimmy Dykes, because that puts me in the category of a third-tier ESPN analyst, but he’s right about Sean Singletary. Double-S doesn’t play enough D to make me think that he’s going to be on an NBA roster next year….
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