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Column by Shepherd Bliss “We, the undersigned, believe that a healthy food system is necessary to meet the urgent challenges of our time,” begins the final draft of the Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture. Initiated by Roots of Change and half a year in the drafting, it will be released Friday at Slow Food…
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Column by Jim Bishop It seems obvious, yet so hard to implement. Many problems associated with the human condition, whether experienced in the workplace, at home or in settings where we’d rather not have others find us, can be addressed – and often resolved – by basic, eyeball-to-eyeball conversation. Homer J. Simpson might say, “It…
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Item by Mary K. Heatwole Beverly S. Butterfield of New Market has accepted the position of vice president for institutional advancement at Bridgewater College, effective Oct. 1. Butterfield, a 1979 graduate of Bridgewater College, has held a faculty position with the Virginia Tech Extension Service since 1979. Most recently, she served as the director of…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m out in Bridgewater last Friday night to see some good old-fashioned smashmouth football in the form of the single-wing offense that dates back to Pop Warner and is currently favored by Waynesboro coach Steve Isaacs. Isaacs has won a state title with this offense,…
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Earth Talk From the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Everyone knows we should recycle metal, glass and plastic cans and bottles, but what about all the lids, tops and caps? I see people recycling plastic bottles, for example, with their caps on, but I’ve always been told to thrown them out. Is that…
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Column by W.R. Marshall I’d like to find the guy who started that whole “A bad day of golf is better than a good day at the office” thing and drag his cliché-spoutin’ butt behind a John Deere 1200A Bunker Rake. Why the hostility about the game I love? It’s really my fault. A couple…
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Story by Chris Edwards At the fourth annual conference of Mennonite higher-education faculty – held this year for the first time at Eastern Mennonite University – two keynote speakers approached the theme, “Creation, Christ and the Classroom,” from opposite perspectives, theological and temporal. They spoke Aug. 8-9 to about 45 faculty, plus several graduate students,…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “Believe it or not, I am supporting Obama,” the e-mail began. And honestly, I didn’t believe it, not at first. Surely Brett Hayes was pulling my chain. We’ve known each other for years, and got to know each other a lot better during my brief city-council campaign in…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I call it The Wilder Effect. Doug Wilder was up nine points in the pre-election polls in his 1989 gubernatorial race with Marshall Coleman in his bid to become the nation’s first elected African-American governor, but in the poll that counted on Election Day he won by less than half…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It sounds good when Bob Goodlatte puts the numbers in front of us. Virginia has 57 million barrels of recoverable oil and more than 300 billion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas on the waters off its outer continental shelf. That’s a lot of dadgum oil and natural gas, right?…
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