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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Biggest Football Game Ever Played is set for Saturday in Charlottesville – but the biggest football game of the opening weekend of the 2007 Football Championship Subdivision playoffs will be going on down the Blue Ridge in Boone, N.C., when the last two I-AA national champs meet in Kidd…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] “And I’m not just talking about people saying, ‘Miami stinks.’ Everything was, ‘F this,’ ‘F that.’ ‘F everything.’ The whole game.” Hokie Nation, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Come to think of it … College Football Nation, we ought to all be ashamed…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So you want to go green, and you’ve taken some steps by improving energy efficiency around the home and office, cutting unnecessary travel and the rest. But you feel like you can do more. “I think most Americans are looking at the sort of things that they do, and a…
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Op-Ed by Lynn Mitchell Travis Smithdeal is my choice for Pastures District supervisor. He will bring a new attitude because he is a listener with a calm presence, which will allow him to hear from everyone and not react without gathering information from all available sources including citizens and fellow board members.
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Item by Chris Graham Last week it was The Washington Post endorsing Republican Jill Holtzman Vogel. This week it is The Loudoun Times-Mirror, The Clark Times-Courier and The Fauquier Times-Democrat endorsing Democrat Karen Schultz. The papers in an endorsement editorial published this week publicly backed Schultz in the race for the 27th Senate District seat…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Nancy Sorrells is running for her first re-election to the Riverheads District seat on the Augusta County Board of Supervisors in next month’s general elections. The independent will face the challenge of a Republican Party nominee, farmer Michael Shull, on the Nov. 6 ballot. Sorrells and Shull both talked…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The 27th Senate District promised to be a wide-open affair even before moderate Republican Sen. Russ Potts announced his retirement plans. But now with Potts out of the picture, the battle between his successor as the Republican standard-bearer in the district that stretches from Winchester in the Shenandoah Valley…
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Story by Chris Graham General Assembly candidates from up and down the Shenandoah Valley will meet in Harrisonburg and Woodstock to discuss environmental concerns including fish kills in the Shenandoah River and other water-quality issues.
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Item by Chris Graham The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities has extended the accreditation of employment-services programs at the Waynesboro-based Vector Industries for three years. The accreditation represents the highest level of accreditation that can be awarded to an organization. Vector Industries provides employment and training for people with physical and mental challenges. Employment…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The torch is being passed in the Beverley Manor District in Augusta County – where the man who has represented the district on the county board of supervisors for the past five-plus years, Jim Bailey, a Republican, is retiring from local politics at the end of the current year….
