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The Top Story by Chris Graham Jim Bailey announced his retirement from Augusta County politics earlier this year, leaving the Beverley Manor District seat on the Augusta County Board of Supervisors an open seat. The contenders for the seat – Democrat Lee Godfrey and Republican Jeremy Shifflett – answered questions on the issues of the…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Nancy Sorrells is running for her first re-election to the Riverheads District seat on the Augusta County Board of Supervisors in next month’s general elections. The independent will face the challenge of a Republican Party nominee, farmer Michael Shull, on the Nov. 6 ballot. Sorrells and Shull both talked…
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Column by Jim Bishop This weakly EML (English as a Maltreated Language) experimentation generates considerable reader response, and I’m grateful.
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The Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] You want evidence as to why the New York Yankees should move on from the Joe Torre Era into what I think should be the Joe Girardi Era? Two words: Dave Leitao. Leitao is the Joe Girardi of UVa. basketball – a get-in-your-face coach…
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Item by Chris Graham 24th Senate District Libertarian Party nominee Arin Sime has released his campaign schedule for the weeks of Oct. 8 and Oct. 15. Oct. 8: Meeting with the editorial board of The News Leader, 2 p.m.; Fraternal Order of Police Candidate Forum, Michie Tavern Lane, Albemarle County, 7 p.m. Oct. 9: PureWater…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Five Bridgewater College alums will be inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday.
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Global warming … sucks. “Hey, man, how was the beach?” my friend Eli asked me when he saw me on Sunday. I looked like a lobster after the boiling water, for the record. And I hadn’t been to the beach – or anywhere near it. “Just went to…
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Story by Chris Graham The tale of the legendary origins of a mysterious marine-research institute is the focus of a new novel by Bridgewater College professor Ed Huffstetler.
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Story by Laura Lehman Amstutz As second-year Eastern Mennonite University students anticipate the start of the new school year, they usually think about one thing – the internship. Seventeen second-year seminary students began internships this fall. The internship is part of the “Formation in Ministry” course, required for students in the three-year master of divinity…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The torch is being passed in the Beverley Manor District in Augusta County – where the man who has represented the district on the county board of supervisors for the past five-plus years, Jim Bailey, a Republican, is retiring from local politics at the end of the current year….
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