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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] More than 40 girls from the Central Shenandoah Valley and other parts of Virginia will be expanding their horizons in math and science this weekend at James Madison University. The Expanding Your Horizons conference will be ongoing on Saturday at the ISAT/CS building at JMU with students in grades 9-11…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] State legislators today approved a $2.6 billion bond package that will fund a host of important infrastructure improvements across the Commonwealth. State Del. Steve Landes, R-Weyers Cave, talked up the improvements that will be in the works in the Greater Augusta area as a result of the action in the…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Renowned French painter Thierry Marquis will unveil his new painting of Woodrow Wilson at an event at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library in Staunton on Saturday. The unveiling will be at 11 a.m. in the library’s historic gardens. Marquis will be at the library from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m….
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Column by Bob Goodlatte A recent statistic from the Department of Justice shows that someone is assaulted in the U.S. every 7.2 seconds, raped every 2.7 minutes and murdered every 31 minutes. These figures are truly disturbing and something must be done. That is why I joined my Republican colleagues from the House Judiciary Committee…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Just who is the elected leader of the Augusta County Republican Committee is still up in the air – officially, anyway. But the man who was defeated in his bid for re-election is moving on as if he won a mandate at the disputed April 10 mass meeting.
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Photo by Jim Bishop Eastern Mennonite University senior Lisa N. King of Harrisonburg led a “prayer of remembrance” and lit a candle at the close of the chapel service, the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings that left 33 people dead and more wounded. EMU students, faculty and staff left the auditorium in silence…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A Batesville native has been named to the All-USA Community College First Team by USA Today, the American Association of Community Colleges and Phi Theta Kappa, the national honor society for two-year college students. Jacob Neal is one of 10 students being honored today as a member of Virginia’s First…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year. Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech that claimed 33 lives. Augusta Free Press Publishing is sponsoring a community vigil Wednesday morning in Downtown Waynesboro to remember the victims. We Are All Hokies: A Community Vigil…
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Photos by Nathan Combs The Photograph Augusta Free Press Publishing and The New Dominion Magazine sponsored We Are All Hokies: A Community Vigil, an April 20, 2007 event at Waynesboro High School to remember the victims of the tragic April 16, 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech. The event drew more than 500 area residents and raised…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It was hard enough getting Kitty Lough to go into an independent-living facility, harder still to get her to accept the change in her lifestyle. She never would have guessed back then that she’d miss it as much as she does now. “She’s finally gotten over the stage of saying,…
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