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“This legislation is monumental,” Ben Carter, the president of the Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce, wrote in a partisan-tinged letter to the editor published in The News Virginian last week, in which he recited the GOP talking points on the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation making its way through Congress that would put into…
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Funerals are sad, solemn and, when circumstances surrounding the death are tragic, extremely heartrending. At the same time, these occasions can be celebratory as the life and legacy of the person are memorialized and include a focus on life eternal.
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When Barack Obama took the oath of office as the 44th president of the United States on Jan. 20, I was thinking of Colonel Frank Christmas. Colonel Christmas, an African-American veteran who had fought for his country through two wars, mostly in segregated units, was the oldest member of a 1961 class of newly-sworn-in Foreign Service…
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One part of Staunton State Del. Chris Saxman’s proposal to prevent the closure of the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents is moving ahead gaining support in the Virginia General Assembly.
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You can shop green at Cranberry’s in Staunton – it’s official. The Virginia Tourism Corp. has designated Cranberry’s Grocery & Eatery as a Virginia Green designation. “We had to apply to get this label,” says Linda Taylor, the manager of the eatery, “starting with a description of our recycling program – which in our case…
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Here is a list of events ongoing today in the Central Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia. For a complete rundown of what is on the local events schedule, go to our Calendar of Events.
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We Americans woke up to a different nation than the one we greeted yesterday. It’s not a change of administration. They come and go every four or eight years. It’s not that the Dow hit 14,000 a few hours after Barack Obama was inaugurated. Nor did foreclosures end, nor Lehman Brothers or the Raphine Yellow…
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Helon Habila, who teaches creative writing at George Mason University, will be featured speaker at the first “Writers Read” program of the spring semester at Eastern Mennonite University.
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Here is a list of events ongoing today in the Central Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia. For a complete rundown of what is on the local events schedule, go to our Calendar of Events.
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Here is a list of events ongoing this weekend in the Central Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia. For a complete rundown of what is on the local events schedule, go to our Calendar of Events.
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