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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] “The budget will allow services to remain substantively intact while shielding already strapped taxpayers from increased cost.” That’s definitely one way to look at the city budget. Another view that I’ve been advancing is that we’re actually losing on both ends. Because services aren’t going…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] UVa. football fans can purchase three- or four-game ticket plans beginning today, the school’s athletics department has announced. The ticket packages go on sale at 5 p.m. – and include home games with Southern Cal, Miami and Clemson.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Blue Ridge Community College is offering a class for experienced motorcyclists next month. The Saturday, June 14 class will begin at 8:30 a.m. on the Weyers Cave campus of BRCC. The class will teach advanced learning techniques and give participants a chance to practice several street-riding strategies.
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The Local Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] I remember being excited seeing the word Crimora on the six-year plan. I was a cub reporter at The News Virginian, and my beat included Augusta County government. I was still wet behind the ears, but I was far enough along that the editor was letting me…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Alicia’s Law will double the capacity of law enforcement in Virginia to arrest online child predators. That was the message delivered yesterday at a news conference to talk up Alicia’s Law, a legislative initiative led by House Democratic Caucus chair Brian Moran this year.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A Wild Safari theme will greet campers at the Staunton Day Camp scheduled for the Grand Caverns Regional Park in Grottoes July 14-18. Girls of all ages are welcome at the camp, which is sponsored by the Girl Scouts of the Virginia Skyline Council. Girls don’t have to be involved…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A hiking event sponsored by the Virginia chapter of the Sierra Club and Virginia Forest Watch will give you a glimpse of a proposed 185-acre logging site that threatens the heart of the Root Run watershed. The June 28 Tour de Cut will focus on the proposed Forest Service Marshall…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] If what I was told is right, Tim Williams isn’t as much considering a run for mayor as a run for mayor is being considered for Tim Williams. And I’m guessing what I was told is right. The Man Who Otherwise Would Be Mayor, Frank…
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The Local Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] Interesting editorial in today’s News Virginian about the supposed dangers of CFL bulbs. It would have been more interesting had the paper done even cursory research into the case of the Maine woman whose horror story illustrated the supposed dangers associated with the small amount of mercury contained…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Virginia Organizing Project is going to be walking the beat this summer. The VOP will be knocking on 300,000 doors this summer in one of the more ambitious civic-engagement projects I’ve heard about in recent years.
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