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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] For three-plus hours that October night, it had seemed that Virginia Tech had played its way back into the national-title picture with a convincing win over then-#2 Boston College. And then … “Boston College has scarred me for life. I don’t celebrate a win until it’s zero-zero-zero reading on the…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte The Internet is one of the most useful inventions of all time. The Internet provides access to a wealth of information and services that enable our children to look up information for school projects, allows us to check the weather for Saturday’s soccer game, and even to order groceries online and…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Emmett Hanger is sure of one thing – he hasn’t changed since his first run for elected office in 1979. And if you ask him, if anything has changed in the past three decades, it’s the Republican Party that he has trumpeted since the days when the Valley GOP could…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Paige Holder’s claim to sports-fan fame had been the two fan of the game awards he had won at Scott Stadium. “I am the only one to have won this honor more than once,” said Holder, a Waynesboro native and 2006 graduate of the University of Virginia – and finalist…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Paige Holder’s claim to sports-fan fame had been the two fan of the game awards he had won at Scott Stadium. “I am the only one to have won this honor more than once,” said Holder, a Waynesboro native and 2006 graduate of the University of Virginia – and finalist…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s Thanksgiving – and on this day when we are supposed to reflect on reasons that we all have to be thankful, I thought it appropriate to muse on the reasons that newsmakers in Virginia might have to be thankful this holiday season. Ahem. Here goes.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Cathy Campbell wants to learn more about how African-Americans in rural Virginia facing tough end-of-life decisions go about making those decisions – so she’s been hitting the road a lot lately to ask folks to share their wisdom.
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I complain a lot in this column – really, a column should be about 95 percent complaining, and 5 percent finding tearjerking stories to show folks that the writer has a heart. But I digress – because this is one of the 19 of 20…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Chris Saxman sees the political battle up ahead as “an uphill sled.” But the Shenandoah Valley legislator isn’t one to shy away from a fight. And no, I’m not talking here about his own dalliance with a run at the Republican Senate nomination in 2008. “John McCain is an American…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNERS: Waynesboro city employees They get an extra day off this year – Christmas Eve. Not for nothing, but maybe we should all have somebody legislate the rest of us extra paid holidays – at somebody else’s expense. LOSER: Mr. Congressman, Virginia had the first Thanksgiving Sixth…
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