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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The First Fridays Art Walk in Downtown Harrisonburg will have a patriotic flavor of sorts. The Art Walk will be held from 1-4 p.m. on Friday, the Fourth, and will coincide with the Valley 4th Celebration in Harrisonburg. There will be a guided art walk at 3 p.m. beginning in…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The fourth annual Art Expose at Lower Cove Run Art Studios in Matthias, W.Va., just over the state line from Rockingham County, is set for the extended Fourth of July weekend. The July 4-6 event will run from 4-6 p.m. each day at the studios.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Nice, provocative lede to the “Can’t just blame it on the rain” story on Day One of The News Virginian’s Stormwater Strain series. “Trash, cigarette butts, oil and antifreeze assault Waynesboro’s stormwater system,” writes the NV’s Jimmy LaRoue, making us think that these are the…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m sensing more fear than loathing regarding the upcoming News Virginian special report on stormwater issues. I’ve been getting e-mails the past couple of days from residents who assume that the NV is going to take a partisan rather than evenhanded approach to reporting on…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSERS: You, me and everybody we know The State Corporation Commission said today that it has approved Dominion Virginia Power’s request for an 18 percent rate hike. Yippee. The average residential utility bill will go up $16.61 a month with the rate increase. The good news – Dominion deferred about…
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Fear and Loathing column by Chris Graham [email protected] This politics stuff isn’t just fun and games. We can forget that sometimes. I was jolted back into that reality yesterday when I saw fire trucks from the Preston L. Yancey Fire Department and Augusta County Fire Department speed past my office/house on their way downtown. “This…
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Op-Ed by Denise Smith After reading Gov. Tim Kaine’s current initiative to fund transportation in the state of Virginia all I can say is, “Wow, more taxes.” That is just what lower-income people need to get to work at low-wage jobs in Virginia – something else to pay for to take what little we have….
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The months of speculation are over. Sean Singletary is in the NBA. The UVa. point guard was taken with the 42nd pick in Thursday’s NBA Draft by the Sacramento Kings. Virginia Tech forward Deron Washington, meanwhile, is on his way to Eastern Conference finalist Detroit, who took Washington with the…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: I got free ice cream Kline’s Dairy Bar celebrated its grand opening in Downtown Waynesboro this afternoon. For whatever reason, I was there. OK, it was for the free ice cream. Ethics issue – I’m sure the free ice cream was meant at least in part to entice people…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] “Where did you get that I work for Reo?” Small towns being what they are, you run into people. At the grand opening for the new Kline’s Dairy Bar downtown today, I ran into Tom Reider, the guy who John Lawrence told me was among…
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