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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Single-game tickets for two Virginia football games went on sale this morning. Tickets for UVa. home games with Richmond (Sept. 6, $16) and East Carolina (Oct. 11, $35) went on sale at 9 a.m. The Aug. 30 season-opener against Southern Cal is sold out.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Sgt. Tony Shifflett of the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office recently completed the Advanced Police Sniper School in New Canton and finished the course as the “Top Shot” among the 15 attendees.
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] The battle for next year’s Democratic Party nomination is ever-so-quietly heating up. House Democratic Caucus chair Brian Moran seems to have been focusing his attention on cornering the Mark Warner market at the outset of the ’09 nomination race. Moran has some of the big guns from the Warner…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Media General apparently isn’t making enough money at The Daily Progress in Charlottesville to justify spending the “several million dollars of repairs, refurbishing and rewiring” needed to continue long-term operations at its printing plant on West Rio Road. These can’t be good days at the Richmond-based Media General, the parent…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro Rotarian Tracy Aitcheson was installed as district governor for District 7570 in a ceremony held last week at the Waynesboro Country Club. Aitcheson is a 19-year member of the Waynesboro Rotary Club. Aitcheson, 71, is a University of Richmond grad and former dentist who raises purebred Angus cattle on…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Three bushmen show up at the U.S. consulate in Lagos, Nigeria, after having been recruited to come to America to help the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton build authentic mud huts for a 1700s-era West African compound that will help the museum tell the story of the colonial African slave…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: The Frank Lucente flip-flop on stormwater, explained Nice story in today’s NV that in part allows Frank Lucente to explain his flip-flop on funding for stormwater. “I think we can do the whole thing with what we’ve got,” Lucente told The News Virginian. He told me a different story…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Tom Reynolds can hear his dad’s voice today. “Dad used to tell me, Son, you have bigger fish to fry here. I’ve got a church that’s looking for a significant amount of leadership. They’ve been gentle with me as a part-time pastor, but as a full-time pastor, there’s going to…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I didn’t realize it until after we talked this morning, but I’ve probably already met – at the least bumped in to – the new Voice of the Cavaliers, Dave Koehn. Koehn was in Charlottesville for UVa.’s basketball season opener with Vermont, a 90-72 win…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A pair of Waynesboro Generals were among five Valley League players honored as players of the week Tuesday. Tennessee Tech lefty Adam Liberatore picked up two wins in two starts last week – giving up no runs and six hits in 13 1/3 innings and posting 18 strikeouts. Liberatore is…
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