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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop Whether motoring up or down the grade, it’s rather hard to miss the striking sign for Weavers Mennonite Church along heavily-traveled Rt. 33 just beyond the Harrisonburg, Va., city limits.
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Riding on a tidal wave of publicity and burdened with a budget that would sink an ark, “Evan Almighty” – the latest major film to be shot in Augusta County – quickly goes from a flood to a trickle. And it really isn’t that bad a movie;…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham If the much-talked-about industrial megasite in Augusta County is developed down the road, it is not just Augusta County that will be impacted by the addition of thousands of jobs to the regional economy and thousands more new residents to the regional housing market.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Scotland has Nessie, the Pacific Northwest has the Sasquatch, and Augusta County has its own monster – NIMBY.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The Greater Augusta area is a bedroom community for Charlottesville to the east and Harrisonburg to the north – that’s a fact.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., were a wakeup call for those involved in the emergency-services community in the Shenandoah Valley. “The big thing that came out of 9/11 was the thought that, hey, we’ve got to look at our policies and…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham “Three guys came into the restaurant, and two of them had guns in their belts. And, I mean, they didn’t look like undercover police. But then again, what does undercover police look like? But … uh … it just looks kind of odd. They kept getting up and going…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen My mother used to watch “60 Minutes” on TV for strictly medicinal purposes. Mike Wallace and them’ns would always have at least one piece of inflammatory journalism that would get her blood boiling, a process that she swore cleaned our her innards.
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Story by Chris Graham Emmett Hanger has come under fire from Scott Sayre in their contest for the 24th Senate District Republican Party nomination for his efforts to get legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants meeting several specific conditions to qualify for in-state tuition benefits. We asked the two candidates to discuss their positions on…
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Story by Chris Graham Emmett Hanger and Scott Sayre were in the same room – briefly. The candidates for the 24th Senate District Republican Party nomination passed like ships in the night at their joint appearance at a Staunton Republican Committee meeting Tuesday – with Hanger, the three-term incumbent state senator under fire from local…
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