Groh, or no Groh?

Chris Graham

It appears at this point that at least one and maybe both Grohs will be back in Charlottesville next fall. Should they be? Or should the University of Virginia go in a new direction – either by forcing Mike Groh out as offensive coordinator or Al Groh out as head coach? What do you think?

News Leader cuts 15 positions

Chris Graham

One blog is calling it the “biggest mass layoff in newspaper industry history,” and part of it is ongoing in the Valley. The News Leader cut 15 job positions on Tuesday as part of a move initiated by its corporate parent Gannett Co. Inc. that will result in 10 percent of the Northern Virginia-based media…

Children’s Choir concert on tap this weekend

Jim Bishop

The sound of 150 children’s voices and pipe organ will be heard 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6 and 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7, when the Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir presents its annual Christmas concerts at Eastern Mennonite University’s Lehman Auditorium in Harrisonburg. The Preparatory Choir, ages 8-11, the Treble Choir, ages 10-15, and the Concert…

Better than he found it

Chris Graham

I didn’t know Louie Hausrath all that well. Actually, on second thought … I first knew his daughter, Beth, back when I was in the second grade at Crimora Elementary School. “I taught you how to write,” the woman whom I still feel compelled to think of and refer to as Miss Hausrath tells me…

BC alums named to school’s board of trustees

Chris Graham

Two Bridgewater College alums were elected to the board of trustees at BC last week. James Russell Bruner, Bridgewater class of 1977, is president and chief executive officer of Maersk Inc. and executive vice president of A.P. Moller-Maersk, the largest shipping company in the world. He joined Maersk in 1989 and worked his way up…

Why isn’t the wealth trickling down?

Chris Graham

Has trickle-down economics been good for Waynesboro? At first glance, definitely. According to figures from the Virginia Department of Taxation, taxable sales in Waynesboro – the best way I can approximate for the local economy what we call gross domestic product or gross national product for the national economy – have nearly doubled since Waynesboro…