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Letter from Patricia Bell, Waynesboro Regardless of your political inclinations, you marginalize yourself if you do not register to vote. Take responsibility for yourself and your community by registering to vote before the deadline. Only those who are registered can participate, and voter registration closes in Virginia 29 days before the November election. It is…
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Letter from Martha Hicks, Lynchburg I retired three years ago after teaching for 30 years in Virginia’s public schools. I have a pension, for which I am grateful, through the Virginia Retirement System. The benefits from that pension were partly paid for by me when I began to teach, then my school system took over…
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Staff Report Virginia will play at Duke on Saturday at noon in a game televised by ESPNU, with Virginia Tech closing the day for the ACC with a nationally televised game at Nebraska. The Tech-Nebraska game will kick off at 8 p.m. on ABC, the ACC announced. Other games on the schedule include: – Maryland…
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More from our Calendar of Events. Saturday, Sept. 20 Guest speakers, including several Virginia Indian representatives, artists and dancers offer perspectives on Virginia Indians past and present, Festival Conference and Student Center, James Madison University, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Info: http://web.jmu.edu/thegallery/new_page_1.htm. Volunteer Firefighter Auction, Waynesboro Fire Department, West Broad Street, Downtown Waynesboro, 10…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A complaint filed last week by the Democratic Party of Virginia charges that a recent Jim Gilmore TV ad violated campaign-finance laws by failing to show voters in writing that he personally authorized the ad, a requirement under federal “Stand by Your Ad” rules. “Jim Gilmore should have to play…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Peter Lalich is no longer the future of UVa. football. “We have supported Peter, but believe today a point has been reached where it’s best for all concerned that he no longer participate on the team. This is my decision, and it has support of head football coach Al Groh….
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It was a midday Thursday event in Waynesboro featuring a former Mississippi governor stumping for Barack Obama. You wouldn’t expect to see more than a handful of people on hand, right? So then when 55 people show up to see Ray Mabus talk about what Obama wants to do to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Wayne Theatre Alliance is moving forward with plans to begin the restoration of the 82-year-old downtown theatre. Work on the project will begin within days, Alliance executive director Clair Myers reported in an e-mail to current and past board members that was sent out this morning. The front half…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] News Virginian editor Lee Wolverton and I agree on two things – well, maybe three. I’m adding one that I hope we’d assent to – that it was a pleasure to sit down a few months back and talk issues. Of the other two, I am certain – that we…
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Staff Report A State Police investigation into an ad that ran in the News Leader two days before the May 6 Staunton City Council elections that some said might have run afoul of Virginia campaign-finance laws has concluded with a finding that there was no evidence of wrongoing, the paper reported this morning. The ad,…
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