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Story by Scott German Here we go again. With a ton of talent, experience and motivation the Virginia baseball team find themselves in familiar territory. But when May arrives they must let the past be the past and rise to the occasion when it most matters – the postseason. Despite the loss of several key…
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Op-Ed by Donna Miller Recently, there has been great debate over cable versus satellite, and it does not amaze me that very few have anything positive to say about either of these companies. It’s not about the quality of the picture per se, but the misrepresentation by each of the companies, the lack of quality…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It was a “difficult decision,” but in the end, Tom Reynolds knew what he had to do. “It’s an easy decision to make, but at the same time it’s a difficult decision to make,” said Reynolds, the mayor of Waynesboro for the last four years and a member of Waynesboro…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Rusty Ashby is concerned about the fiscal future of the Queen City. “I think it’s acquired a lot of debt over the last few years, and I think there’s going to be some real infrastructure needs – with roads, with water and sewer, those things that people don’t like to…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] Sorry that I’m keeping this personal again this week. Those who read last week’s column know that my father, William Mark Graham, Billy, as he was known by most, Dad or Papa, by some of the others of us, passed away on Jan. 2. It was sudden…
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Column by Todd Wickersty TheButterRoom.com It’s been a week since the Hokies disappointed thousands of Virginia Tech alums, students, and fans with a 24-21 loss to Danny Manning and the Kansas Jayhawks. I am still pissed, partly because I’ve been involved in a spirited e-mail exchange with a few other Hokies about public enemy #1,…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] I know that this gets said often and in different ways, but given what I’m dealing with in the wake of my father’s passing this week, I think it bears repeating. Get your affairs in order just in case something unexpected happens – if only for the…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s really not that important – whatever it was. Pick up the phone. Stop by and visit. It won’t be easy. I’m not saying that it will be. But what happens if, say, you haven’t spoken to your, oh, I don’t know, your dad, in two years,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The subject isn’t evolution, and the barristers aren’t William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. But the upcoming trial of a Staunton adult-video store owner on obscenity charges has some of that Scopes Monkey Trial flavor to it. Doesn’t it? I mean, on the one side, you have the fundamentalists who…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When you’re a news reporter – print, radio, TV – it comes with the job that sometimes you have to rush to the scene of a car accident or fire or some other such catastrophe to tell folks what is going on. And it doesn’t make it any easier that…
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