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Much uncertainty swirls around the race for the U.S. Senate seat in Virginia up for re-election in 2012 – first and foremost whether incumbent Democrat Jim Webb will even be in the running for re-election. That uncertainty, and the changing political climate in the Commonwealth since Webb’s upset of George Allen in 2006 and Barack…
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The Augusta County Board of Supervisors will meet on Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the Augusta County Government Center in Verona. The meeting is nominally the board’s reorganization meeting for 2011, with the focus being on the election of a new chair and vice chair for the year. There is one other item on the…
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Liberty squandered a 13-point halftime lead Tuesday evening at VCU, but later came back from a five-point second-half deficit to win at the Verizon Wireless Arena. The Lady Flames’ 59-57 victory marked their first road triumph of the season. Waynesboro High School graduate Devon Brown scored Liberty’s final four points, including a pair of free…
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Do you hear what I hear . . .? * “Feliz Navidad,” “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire),” “White Christmas,” “Have a Holly Jolly Christmas” and umpteen different artists butchering “Oh Holy Night” on the 24/7 all-Christmas music radio stations over and over again; * No sooner settling into the comfy recliner…
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Another Sunday, another unfulfilling ending for the Washington Redskins, who lost 17-16 to Tampa Bay despite dominating for long stretches, then suffering the “North Dallas Forty” ending when the special-teams unit couldn’t execute what would have been the game-tying extra point with nine seconds to go. It’s easy to say that the ‘Skins have just…
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Another Sunday, another unfulfilling ending for the Washington Redskins, who lost 17-16 to Tampa Bay despite dominating for long stretches, then suffering the “North Dallas Forty” ending when the special-teams unit couldn’t execute what would have been the game-tying extra point with nine seconds to go. It’s easy to say that the ‘Skins have just…
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“Mom, Dad, all I want for Christmas is . . .” I didn’t need to finish the sentence. My parents knew what was coming next because they’d already heard it one too many times. And the exasperating answer is: a Remco transistor radio and broadcasting system. I don’t recall where I first saw this “electronic…
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It hasn’t been that long since the word “maverick” triggered the next drink in the drinking game. John McCain, the original GOP maverick, has since made a hard turn to the far right, judging his political survival to be of more import than his political legacy. The maverick is a dying breed in the Republican…
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Judy Mosedale sees a Staunton that is able to build on its theater-destination status. “Once we get the Main Stage open, we have Blackfriars across the street bringing people in town for one night, and then people can stay a second night and take in another show. The two really should work hand-in-hand,” said Mosedale,…
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Presbyterian knocks off VMI despite 30 from Okoye Sophomore forward Stan Okoye led VMI with a career-high 30 points and chipped in eight rebounds, but it wasn’t enough as VMI fell to the Presbyterian College Blue Hose 92-78 in front of a season-high 2,989 fans at VMI’s Cameron Hall Saturday, Dec. 4. The Keydets drooped…
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