Gotta know the warning signs
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The sensation was like “pouring warm water starting from the top of my head all the way down to my toes on the left side.” And it scared Chris DeWald, but not the doctor who treated him initially.
Search Results for water
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‘I never really gave up’
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I could imagine L.D. Cox as the gregarious 19-year-old who helped deliver the first atomic bomb across the Pacific. “Don’t shoot!” he said in mock surrender as he made his way across the drill field at Fishburne Military School on a sunny late-March afternoon, passing a cannon that was going to be fired a little…
Three bowls of soup: Local restaurants using local ingredients affect communities in unforeseen ways
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Will Richey began to notice a difference in the Charlottesville Farmers Market in the late ’90s. Besides the usual crowd seeking coffee and muffins or a week’s worth of groceries, he started running into Charlottesville’s best chefs.
Spring Reading List
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Although the global economic crisis has had many tragic consequences for people all over the world, it is also true that many individuals, families and communities have taken this challenging time as an opportunity to reflect on their current lifestyle choices and to begin making real changes in their lives.
Wetlands damage leads to record fine for county homeowner
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An Augusta County homeowner has been fined a record $145,000 by the State Water Control Board for damage incurred to five acres of protected wetlands stemming from activities undertaken during the construction of a $2.4 million mansion on Quarles Pond in Stuarts Draft.
David Cox | Fighting fires and unemployment
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Imagine this: Fire breaks out in your next-door neighbor’s house. It endangers yours. Fortunately our faithful fire departments respond quickly. Unfortunately—this would never happen here, but remember, we’re imagining—one of the squads needs to use your hose. The squad has the water; all they need, urgently, is your hose.
A Big Mac, a Whopper, a BLT …
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We’re a couple of hours away from our Big Mac Attack, and we have some good news to mark the occasion. The Waynesboro School Board didn’t bow to the pressure being applied by Vice Mayor Frank Lucente and his friends in the local media to cut its 2009-2010 budget $600,000 to accommodate Lucente’s push to…
Half-Truths and No-Truths
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You can’t just make something up out of the total thin air like, oh, I don’t know, saying that Gallup has Barack Obama as the second-least popular president at the 100-day mark of the last 40 years, and get away with it, can you? You can if you live in Fringeland, where down is up,…
The Rumor Mill | Pyles, Curren and the 20th
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I’m hearing in bits and pieces that Tracy Pyles, the Pied Piper of the reassessment opposition in Augusta County, made a late inquiry into what he would need to do to get in the contest for the Democratic Party nomination in the 20th House District, and that he isn’t entirely behind the man who ended…
In the News
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– State News: Two “mild” swine-flu cases reported in Virginia, posted Thursday, 8:15 p.m. – Chris Graham on Facebook: Am I the only person thinking that the media is whipping up mass mysteria over a flippin’ flu virus? – Event: Small business workshop in Waynesboro, posted Thursday, 9:45 a.m. – Event: Operation and supply chain…
