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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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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s time for new solutions, Michelle Obama told a rally of 2,500 people on Grounds at the University of Virginia Wednesday afternoon, “because we know that the old ways just won’t do.” Obama, the wife of Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama, and Jill Biden, the wife of Delaware senator…
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Column by Jim Bishop Twenty-one Mazda Miata convertible sport coupes departed Harrisonburg for “Wild, Wonderful West Virginia” on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 7; twenty returned. This columnist, who confesses to a four-and-a-half year love affair with his miniaturized motorcar, wondered if anyone would respond to an announcement in the News-Record and other outlets to join a…
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Staff Report A fire destroyed an auto shop in Crimora that was not insured, according to its owner. American Way Auto Collision Repair Center owner William Burrow told The News Leader that he estimates the loss just in vehicles at $300,000. The News Virginian reported the overall damage estimate at $700,000. Among the items lost…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] Battleground Virginia continues to tighten – and a new poll has Barack Obama with a four-point lead over John McCain. A SurveyUSA poll released yesterday had Obama ahead of McCain in Virginia by a 50 percent-to-46 percent margin. A week ago, SurveyUSA had McCain ahead of Obama by a 49…
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Notes from the Press column by Chris Graham [email protected] AFP editor Chris Graham will appear on “Charlottesville-Right Now!” on WINA-1070AM in Charlottesville today at 4:30 p.m. to talk Virginia and U.S. politics. Graham will join host Coy Barefoot for a solid half-hour of politics talk. More on WINA at www.wina.com.
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Item by Jim Bishop Breast cancer will afflict one of every eight American women in her lifetime. A pharmacologist who is doing cutting-edge research on separating normal and cancer cells will discuss her work in this area at the second Suter Science Seminar of fall semester at Eastern Mennonite University. Jeannine Strobl, professor and pharmacology…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Former Mississippi governor Ray Mabus will be in Waynesboro on Thursday to lead a “Real Change for Rural America” community forum for the Barack Obama presidential campaign. Mabus served as governor of Mississippi from 1988-1992 and was selected as the best governor of the millennium in a 1999 poll commissioned…
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