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Story by Chris Graham They didn’t have a chance. A group of young men from Bedford, about an hour and a half down the Blue Ridge Parkway from Waynesboro, were among the first Allied soldiers to storm the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, D-Day. The Bedford Boys, they are known to us now,…
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Stephanie Beverage avenged a loss at the polls four years ago to Sandee Dixon to win the city-treasurer job in Waynesboro. The rematch from 2005 had become a heated four-way race with the entree of two write-in candidates toward the end of the campaign. Write-ins Jim Serba and Terry Kent combined to receive 1,383 votes,…
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Monday, Nov. 2 MR. GIBBS: Take us away, Ben. Q Thanks, Robert. A few questions about Afghanistan. Can you tell us, first generally speaking, what’s the President’s reaction to the end of this election? And is he in any way relieved that this sort of messy process is over? MR. GIBBS: Well, look, I think…
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Greetings, boys and ghouls, on this howl of the ‘ween, 2009. Don’t want to employ scare tactics, but it’s only fair to warn you that we’re about to embark on another frightful foray through the haunted House of Seven Gables with Nathaniel HAW-thorne. Sorry if this jolts you. Would it help if I offered the…
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A committee of the Virginia Supreme Court has withdrawn a controversial proposal to make jurors anonymous in all state court criminal trials. The committee’s apparent turnabout comes as a result of strong criticism from open government advocates, who argued that allowing the public to know jurors’ identities is an essential part of a fair and…
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Two issues to delve into the 20th District race today, both involving homework. First, regarding Adrian Rogers and Dickie Bell being a “Republican for a Reason.” The website for Bell, the Republican nominee, featured a quote from the late Rogers, the former head of the American Southern Baptist Convention, on socialism on a webpage titled…
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Monday, Oct. 26, 2009 MR. GIBBS: Neatly assembled, very nice. How’s everyone today? Q Good. MR. GIBBS: Fire away. Q Afghanistan. Is the President getting any new options beyond the ones that General McChrystal offered a while back? MR. GIBBS: I haven’t gotten a long download of today’s meeting. I know it ran a little…
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Nothing ever comes out as planned. That’s a variation on Murphy’s (in)famous law, “Anything that can go wrong, will.” Amen to that, sir. Not only that, but Murphy was an optimist. Which begs the question, is it possible for an optimist to be pleasantly surprised?
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My wife had a medical emergency early one recent morning. The details are unimportant, but the care and response that we received were very important. At five a.m., she called her doctor and got him on the phone. He said we should call 911, which we did. Within a few minutes both a paramedic vehicle…
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Tuesday, Oct. 20 Frank Spaziani – Boston College Opening Statement: We started out the second half of the season, with game number seven, on the right foot. We are very happy to come away with a victory over a very good conference opponent. We did a great job from the coaches all the way down…
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