Election Night Live Blog

Chris Graham

24th Senate race – 74 of 75 precincts reporting – Emmett Hanger (R) 23,515 votes (65.3 percent) – David Cox (D) 9,658 votes (26.8 percent) – Arin Sime (L) 2,797 votes (7.8 percent) 26th Senate race – 64 of 64 precincts reporting – Mark Obenshain (R) – 25,279 votes (69.3 percent) – Maxine Roles (D) – 11,120 votes (30.5 percent) 26th House…

This year’s motto: Can’t Tell Anyone Without a Program!

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Virginia Tech Basketball Preview by Niemo www.techhoops.com News partner to The SportsDominion Outlook Let’s skip right to my conclusion before I give the evidence. Gone are a lot of points (4,500, to be approximate) and leadership. With the extreme youth, inexperience, and lack of proven leadership on the 2007-08 Hokie team, anything over .500 is…

Impact of Waynesboro referendum to be felt beyond Election Day

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Yes or no – whatever Waynesboro residents end up saying about five bond issues in a nonbinding referendum on the ballot tomorrow will go a long way to determining what happens in next year’s city-council elections. “This is a good gauge for me, really, to see what the people want….

Eleven, down to two

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Eleven – yes, eleven – people want to be the new clerk of court in Rockingham County. But the race for the $123,000-a-year job seems to be coming down to the two major-party nominees. “I really think it’s going to be a two-person race,” Bridgewater College history and political-science professor…

GOP leader endorses Smithdeal in Pastures race

Chris Graham

Op-Ed by Lynn Mitchell Travis Smithdeal is my choice for Pastures District supervisor. He will bring a new attitude because he is a listener with a calm presence, which will allow him to hear from everyone and not react without gathering information from all available sources including citizens and fellow board members.

‘Impossible’ hope

David Cox

Column by David Cox Not three months after we moved to the Valley in 1987, I got a call asking if our church could welcome, house, and support an exiled Ugandan bishop and his family of – get this – nine, in – get this – four weeks. “Impossible,” I thought. But the church, together…