Ashby wants to chart Staunton on new fiscal course

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Rusty Ashby is concerned about the fiscal future of the Queen City. “I think it’s acquired a lot of debt over the last few years, and I think there’s going to be some real infrastructure needs – with roads, with water and sewer, those things that people don’t like to…

The 3 D’s of security

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Story by Bonnie P. Lofton When Lisa L. Schirch, professor of peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, launched the 3D Security Initiative in November 2006, she had no way of knowing how long it might take for 3D to gain the attention of top decisionmakers in this country. Regardless of the months, years or even decades…

Wisdom from the past

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Story by Theresa Curry AGratefulSeason.com I often think about our rural grandmothers and great grandmothers, and the lives they lived. In many mountain homes, electrity didn’t arrive until the ’50s; outhouses were still a common sight through the ’60s and ’70s. I still see, though rarely now, smoke coming from chimneys sometimes on a summer…

Work begins on Skyline Drive

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s just … time. The Skyline Drive was built back in the 1930s and was last touched up in the mid-1980s. “Essentially it’s time for a new construction,” Shenandoah National Park spokesperson Karen Beck-Herzog said of the work that has begun on the drive between Milepost 31.5 at Thornton Gap…

Robertson taking no prisoners in obscenity prosecution

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “Inga.” It was the big to-do back in 1968 when it was released in America. “Filmed entirely in Sweden,” a snapshot on movietime.com relates, “‘Inga’ brims with a European sensuality and eroticism that shocked American audiences upon its release in 1968.” That about sums it up right there, doesn’t it?…