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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen I started working on my review of “The Bucket List” on the way to the theater. After all, I’d seen the coming attractions several times. Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play two quirky old geezers, both dying of cancer, who go off on a toot in a…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When you’re a TV weatherman, a trip to the local burger place can be a challenge not unlike the 10K races that Eric Pritchett runs when he’s not standing in front of a television screen telling us what Mother Nature has in store for us tomorrow. “What’s it going to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When you’re a news reporter – print, radio, TV – it comes with the job that sometimes you have to rush to the scene of a car accident or fire or some other such catastrophe to tell folks what is going on. And it doesn’t make it any easier that…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] We’ve come to that time of year when I try to show you how smart I think I am by efforting at making calls in local election races. OK, so what I’m really trying to do is give us all something to chew on until the numbers start rolling in…
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Virginia Tech Basketball Preview by Niemo www.techhoops.com News partner to The SportsDominion Outlook Let’s skip right to my conclusion before I give the evidence. Gone are a lot of points (4,500, to be approximate) and leadership. With the extreme youth, inexperience, and lack of proven leadership on the 2007-08 Hokie team, anything over .500 is…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Four years ago, Augusta County sheriff Randy Fisher had a nominal challenge for re-election in the form of independent candidate Richard Armstrong. Next week, write-in candidate Edward B. Carter hopes to be more than a nominal challenge for Fisher. “I want complete law enforcement for all thirty-nine thousand and some…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It used to be my dirty little secret – I was a professional wrestling fan, and that meant that Monday nights were booked up, and when the circus was in town, I had to be there at ringside, if not closer. And then something happened this summer that changed things…
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Column by David Cox Amid the ruckus over abusive driver fees, a budget shortfall, mental health care in light of the Tech murders, and other issues of the moment, larger questions get overlooked. Yet these are often the questions that underlie the issues that elections turn on.
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Item by Chris Graham A public-television veteran currently leading marketing efforts for a Miami, Fla.,-based station will be taking over the reins at WVPT in Harrisonburg next month. David Mullins has been tapped to serve as president and general manager of the Harrisonburg-based public-television station. He will replace interim general manager Richard Parker. Parker has…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You don’t just replace 18.4 points per game with a snap of the fingers. But accounting for the scoring that J.R. Reynolds brought to the 2006-2007 Virginia basketball team is not at the top of Dave Leitao’s worry list. “Everybody goes through that when you have graduation, especially with good…
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