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Story by Theresa Curry AGratefulSeason.com Every year about this time, the men and women of the Waynesboro Church of the Brethren fire up their ovens and disappear into a whirlwind of flour and sugar. They’re getting ready for the Church’s annual Craft and Cookie Bazaar Saturday, now in its fourteenth year. The event has become…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A series of legal snafus that arose during the process of confirmation following the bond referenda in Waynesboro that were on the Nov. 6 ballot could soon be resolved without a new election or a court order. “I think the people made an error in putting in the fire station,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Al Groh was getting ready for what turned out to be a nailbiter with Connecticut when he saw something on the TV that worried him about another game that his Virginia team had on the schedule. “We had a later game the day that Virginia Tech was playing Duke –…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Being somewhat long of tooth myself, I joined the holiday throngs to see “No Country for Old Men” with some caution. Afterwards, I knew it was no country for anybody else, either.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Emmett Hanger is sure of one thing – he hasn’t changed since his first run for elected office in 1979. And if you ask him, if anything has changed in the past three decades, it’s the Republican Party that he has trumpeted since the days when the Valley GOP could…
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Essay by Donna Miller I often wonder why people want to live so close to each other. I grew up in the mountainous area of Bath County, and our closest neighbor was about one-half mile away. My favorite spot on our property was a wooded area, partially cleared, with a creek running through it. The…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSERS: Megasite foes They were out in droves in 2006 – and I suspect that many of them were at the polls in Augusta County last week. In any case, they got outvoted – and I think that says a lot about where the county is on…
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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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Virginia Tech Basketball Preview by Niemo www.techhoops.com Hey, Hokie fans, hit I-81 a little early on Friday and head on down for your FSU weekend appetizer: The Virginia Tech men’s basketball team makes their 2007-08 debut when they take on the elon fightin’ Christians … er, I mean Phoenix, at Cassell Coliseum. In all likelihood,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] – Interesting mixed bag in Waynesboro with Yes votes on the fire station, stormwater improvements and library improvements and pretty resounding No votes on the proposed youth baseball-softball complex and sidewalk improvements. I wonder how this will impact the May 2008 elections. I think both sides were anticipating up and…
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