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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Two chairs, one chair, no chair. The Augusta County Republican Committee is split asunder after a mass meeting Thursday night that saw the defeat of long-time chairman Kurt Michael, then featured an interesting power play by Michael that resulted in a second vote that has Michael claiming to have been…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Not a good year for my ACC, no sir, no way. Football saw us go without a national-championship contender … again. I know, Virginia Tech was #3 in the final pre-bowl BCS, but then the Hokies lost to Kansas in the Orange Bowl. Florida State…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Democratic Party gubernatorial-nomination candidate Brian Moran, the sponsor of Alicia’s Law legislation to provide monies for local law enforcement to investigate online sex predators, offered praise on Thursday for the arrest of a Stuarts Draft man who stands accused of molesting a 3-year-old girl. “The work of local law enforcement…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Legislation sponsored by Virginia senators Jim Webb and John Warner to designate a 175-mile corridor along U.S. 15 in Northern Virginia and Central Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic as a National Heritage Area passed the U.S. Senate today. The region designated by the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act…
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Column by Jim Bishop When I was a child, I thought as a child. When I became an adult, well … This adult, a senior citizen still reliving his second childhood, often reflects upon that early, formative period of life. Recently, in the church small group I belong to, we spent time responding to a…
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Item by Jim Bishop Speculation on why people fight wars with such appalling frequency, especially when the decision to go to war rests with many or most members of society rather than with a few leaders, is the theme of the final Suter Science Seminar of spring semester at Eastern Mennonite University. Elizabeth Arkush, assistant…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] UVa. guard Sharnee Zoll and JMU guard Tamera Young are among the 20 players invited to the 2008 WNBA Draft. Zoll, a 5-7 point guard, and Young, a 6-2 shooting guard, will join luminaries including Tennessee center Candice Parker, LSU star Sylvia Fowles and ACC standouts Crystal Langhorne and Laura…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] It is now easier to get organic resources like manure and manure-based products on the web. The Virginia Poultry Federation and the Shenandoah Resource Conservation and Development Council have launched a new website for marketing livestock manure and manure-based products. ValleyOrganicResources.com is a virtual marketplace for people buying the organic…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring comments from Virginia football coach Al Groh about his team’s spring-practice period. Show Length: 8:42. It has been widely assumed that Peter Lalich will be the starting quarterback at UVa. next fall now that Jameel Sewell is no longer a part of the program…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] This has been coming for some time. You could say dating back to the walkup to the 2007 Republican Party primary that saw Scott Sayre challenge Emmett Hanger for the 24th District GOP nomination, though I think it was significantly before that. The discord between Hanger, who held off Sayre’s…
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