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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Greg Hitchin knows that the pressure is there to hit the ground running when he lands in Waynesboro. He also knows that he’s not going to be able to rebuild an economic-development office that went without somebody in the top job for 19 months in a day.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The establishment of two new academic chairs and a science institute was announced on Tuesday at Bridgewater College’s Founder’s Day activities.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov. Bob McDonnell signed into law a number of green energy bills passed by the General Assembly this session. A signing ceremony to mark the signings was held at Old Dominion University in Norfolk today. Among the measures receiving the governor’s signature was his legislation to provide a $500…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Beginning today through April 10, many Virginia households will receive a replacement 2010 Census questionnaire designed to increase census mail participation, get a better count for the state, and save taxpayers the higher cost of sending out census takers to collect information.
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Column by Sarah van Gelder Submit guest columns: [email protected] If anyone thought the inauguration of Barack Obama as president heralded the end of racism in America, they should look no further than the tea party rallies held last weekend. The racial slogans and the mocking signs show how far we still have to go….
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Submitted Item News tips: [email protected] Two assistant professors of history at Bridgewater College have published books on topics that couldn’t be more widely divergent – the Yugo, famous as the worst car of all time, and the history of nursing in the Vietnam War. The husband and wife team of Jason C. Vuic and…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Nineteen months. That’s a long time at the height of the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression to be doing economic development on the fly. Waynesboro finally took a step in the direction of again becoming a player in the development arena with the announcement last week that…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Congratulations are in order to Phil and Ellen Winter, whose persistence in their search for information about the workings of the city treasurer office in Waynesboro led to their collection of dozens of pages of e-mails, memos and audit reports, an investigative report in The New Dominion Magazine, more…
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Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected] It would seem to stand to reason that the breadbasket of Virginia could probably provide at least something in the way of homegrown food for schoolchildren. And then you think about it for a second, and it occurs to you that, you know, maybe it makes sense that…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Random thoughts on a beautiful Tuesday morning in the Valley, when I’d rather be outside taking an extra-long walk with the dog in the Tree Streets, winding down to Ridgeview Park before trekking back to the home office … Not ‘free’ anymore We’ve made it past the 50-subscriber…
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