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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] I ran out of gas once – about 12 years ago. And let me tell you, it was no fun. The number of us having this kind of no-fun has more than doubled this year, according to numbers from the Allstate Motor Club, which reports that the number of Virginians…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Less of us Virginia types will be traveling long distances this Fourth of July holiday. Big surprise, right, given gas prices topping out around $4 a gallon? “Fewer Virginians will be traveling this July 4th holiday due to soaring gas prices, higher airfares coupled with fewer flights and seats, and…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A $3,000 grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts will help the show go on at “The River City Radio Hour.” The grant announcement was made June 20. The commission praised director Clair Myers, also the executive director of the Wayne Theatre Alliance, for the “Radio Hour”‘s use of…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSERS: Those of us overreacting to Wes Clark Look, the guy was wounded in Vietnam himself, OK? Stop calling him unpatriotic. It was a stupid comment, sure. But his point should be well-taken.
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: The Frank Lucente flip-flop on stormwater, explained Nice story in today’s NV that in part allows Frank Lucente to explain his flip-flop on funding for stormwater. “I think we can do the whole thing with what we’ve got,” Lucente told The News Virginian. He told me a different story…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Barack Obama presidential campaign has released its second general-election ad of the 2008 campaign – and it will debut in Virginia and 17 other battleground states beginning today. The 30-second ad, “Dignity,” focuses on Obama’s personal commitment to work on behalf of working-class Americans as a community activist and…
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Item by Jim Bishop Albert N. (Al) Keim, 71, professor emeritus of history at Eastern Mennonite University, died June 27, 2008 at University of Virginia Medical Center. He had a successful liver transplant in 2007, but his health had declined in recent months. Dr. Keim joined the EMU history department faculty in 1965 and retired…
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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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