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Her tragic death moved the community. Now her parents want her life to impact students who like her dream of excelling in the arts. Jim and Kelly Hyson have established the Lindsay Ree Hyson Memorial Scholarship Fund through the Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge. The first scholarship will be awarded this year to…
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It’s just words, isn’t it? “That’s so gay.” “He’s gay.” “She’s a lesbian.” Kids say them, they don’t mean anything. Pay attention, and you can still hear the crowd singing “The Good Ol’ Song,” to the tune of “Auld Lang Syne,” after a touchdown at a University of Virginia football game. “We Come from Old…
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Tom Perriello statement on House passage of stimulus package, 6:54 p.m. Remarks by President Obama after meeting with Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs, 6:17 p.m. Norfolk, Roanoke papers force employees to furlough, 6:13 p.m. South Korean students to visit Presidential Library, 6:07 p.m. Motorists should expect lane closure tonight on I-81, 3:23 p.m. Airfares highest…
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It was like somebody was trying to push them off their feet. That’s how Bridgewater College professor Charles Fleis described the Jan. 8 earthquake that hit Costa Rica while Fleis and a group of BC students were in the country on an education-related trip. “There was a great deal of shaking. Rocks tumbled, trees shook…
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“Hope is not a strategy.” So said Chuck Barger, quoting an Air Force maxim, as he introduced officials speaking at Jan. 6’s community breakfast. How right he is. In my last column, I wrote of the hope that surrounds and infuses us, despite realities that became all too local with the closing of the truck…
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So Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine is interested in letting a few “good” prisoners out of the gray bar hotel 90 days early as a cost-cutting measure claiming they are “nonviolent offenders who have been model inmates” and were due for a 30-day early dismissal, according to an article written by Anthony Barkow of New York.
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I suppose I could have waited until later in the month and headed for Washington or Richmond. Or just turned on the tube to find out what our new president had to say about the State of the Union, or our governor about the State of the Commonwealth. Instead, as a Jeffersonian who loves Real…
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A half-dozen years ago, Rania Kharma of Gaza was my classmate, earning a master’s degree in conflict transformation from Eastern Mennonite University, a peace-oriented college in Harrisonburg. In October, 2007, Rania wrote me and others she knew at EMU to ask for our help in breaking “the siege on Gaza.”
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OK, Sam, we’ll bite. State senators should cut their pay and expense allowances in light of the budget shortfall. How about recommending to your own caucus that they be paid their worth considering what they’ve done the past seven years to block basically anything from happening on transportation or education reform or economic development ……
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“We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.” – Golda Meir (1898-1978), former Israeli prime minister For Israel, the axis of evil is Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran with the latter supporting the two terror groups. With all three entities hell-bent on the destruction and eradication of…
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