Jim Bishop: Gettin’ in beachtime, makin’ waves, mullin’ the future

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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected]   “Sittin’ on the dock of the bay, Watching the tide roll away . . .” – Otis Redding (1968) VIRGINIA BEACH – What could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning? How about poolside in Virginia Beach on a sunny, warm afternoon, alternately…

Recent EMU grad dies in motorcyle accident

Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   A 2010 Eastern Mennonite University graduate lost his life Thursday morning, July 1, in a motorcycle accident near Bridgewater. Jason Jay Marner, 22, from Brighton, Iowa, was riding his motorcycle between work sites with his employer, Dynamic Aviation, when he apparently lost control and strayed into the path of…

‘Open for business’ at the Mill

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected]   Three years, more than $3 million of investment, and now it’s official. “Today is to announce that South River is open for business,” said Michael Bryan, an attorney for South River Inc., the development company owned by Winchester-based developer Beverly Shoemaker, who has been working on plans for a…

More honors for BC’s Rhodes

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   Bridgewater College junior Christina Rhodes added another award to her long list of spring achievements Thursday when she received Academic All-American recognition. Rhodes was named to ESPN The Magazine’s College Division Women’s Track & Field/Cross Country Academic All-American Second Team in voting by CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of…

Feds to Wildlife Center: Thanks, but no thanks

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected]   Ed Clark has been in the wildlife business long enough to remember when his help was wanted after the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill. The deskbound experts running the show in the wake of the still-ongoing spill in the Gulf of Mexico have made it clear that they think they…

David Toscano: BP and Cuccinelli

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Column by David Toscano Submit guest columns: [email protected]   Virginia is the model of the citizen legislature. Delegates and senators are not full-time elected officials; most of us have other jobs. The House of Delegates and the State Senate meet for only 60 days during one year and 45 days during the next year. While…

Wildlife Center: ‘We’re not exactly all that touristy’

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected]   If you’d ask a person on the street what the Wildlife Center of Virginia does, “the two things they’re likely to say are take care of hurt animals and put on programs for kids. And while all of that is true, it’s like what you see of an iceberg…