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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll Question: How are gas prices affecting your daily life? Cars are our freedom. They’re how we get to work, go on vacation, make it to the parents’ house for Sunday dinner, travel to and from play practice and baseball and soccer games after school. Our freedom is…
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Photos by Chris Graham [email protected] The second annual Miss Vector Womanless Beauty Pageant was held Saturday night at Kate Collins Middle School. Nineteen contestants took part in the pageant, which raised money for the Waynesboro-based Vector Industries, a nonprofit that provides employment opportunities for area residents with mental and physical disabilities and others.
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Item by Jim Bishop By popular demand, Eastern Mennonite University will repeat its online course on “Basics of Parish Nursing,” June 23-July 28, 2008. EMU’s Adult Degree Completion Program sponsors the course, which is open to any registered nurse or upper-level nursing student in an RN nursing education program. Parish nursing in the United States…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Shenandoah Valley is recession-proof. Charlottesville is recession-proof. I’ve heard people say this for years. As the argument goes, the local economies have two big things going for them – major universities and agriculture. Kids still go to school in recessions. And kids and everybody else still eat in recessions….
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Column by Bob Goodlatte The United States of America is a nation of immigrants. Legal immigration has blessed our nation with talent, diversity, and a commitment to freedom. However, we are also a nation of laws, and illegal immigration mocks these laws and our entire system of justice. Illegal immigration costs our taxpayers billions of…
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Op-Ed by Larry Yates We should all welcome the recent decision by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to allow crack-cocaine sentences to be reduced retroactively. But we should also pause to recognize what it means. This decision is a clear statement about a social phenomenon that most Americans want to deny – institutional racism.
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Story by Jim Bishop By popular demand, Eastern Mennonite University will offer its online course on “Basics of Parish Nursing” again the second semester in 2008. The course is running the fall semester through EMU’s Adult Degree Completion Program, which is sponsoring the course.
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Column by Bob Goodlatte The United States of America is a nation of immigrants. Legal immigration has blessed our nation with talent, diversity, and a commitment to freedom. However, we are also a nation of laws. Illegal immigration mocks our system of justice and costs our taxpayers billions of dollars every year, while taking jobs from law-abiding…
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Op-Ed by Gary Wingfield Have you bought a car that costs more than your first house? If you answer “Yes,” chances are that your age is above 50. You probably have an employment record of at least 20-25 years.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Jim Bailey announced his retirement from Augusta County politics earlier this year, leaving the Beverley Manor District seat on the Augusta County Board of Supervisors an open seat. The contenders for the seat – Democrat Lee Godfrey and Republican Jeremy Shifflett – answered questions on the issues of the…
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