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Dear EarthTalk: Is there any truth to the rumor about high levels of birth-control chemicals being found in some cities’ drinking water? If so can these be filtered out? – Elizabeth Yerkes, via e-mail It is true that trace amounts of birth control and other medications—as well as household and industrial chemicals of every stripe—are…
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Staff Report Computer-science students from Bridgewater College will demonstrate their information technology skills this weekend at a prestigious computer-programming competition at Radford University. The IBM-sponsored Association of Computer Machinery International Programming Contest will feature teams from 83 countries competing for spots in the World Finals to be held in April 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden. Ray…
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Staff Report Bridgewater College is nearly 80 percent of the way toward its $40 million academic and capital-improvements campaign goal. The school has raised $31.7 million in its Every Student, One Commitment campaign, it announced this week. The campaign is raising monies to support endowed scholarships, academic enhancement, facilities improvements, laboratories, equipment and information technology…
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Op-ed by Karen Waters I am a community organizer. I make change. I am my brother’s and my sister’s keeper. This is one heck of a big responsibility; one I believe is no laughing matter. Thousands of others like me understand we are in this together, and shoulder the heavy burden to create healthy, just…
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Column by Erica Gies We turn on the tap, and clean water flows. Most of us take this service for granted because we consider water, necessary for life, a basic right. In fact, this notion stems back to an ancient Roman legal precedent called the public trust doctrine. This fundamental tenet says that crucial natural…
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Item by Mary K. Heatwole Bridgewater College is one of the best colleges and universities in the Southeast, according to The Princeton Review. The New York City-based education services company selected Bridgewater as one of 139 institutions it recommends in its “Best in the Southeast” section on its website feature, 2009 Best Colleges: Region by…
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Item by Mary K. Heatwole Bridgewater College presented three Merlin E. and Dorothy Faw Garber Awards for Christian Service during the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference held in Richmond. Receiving the awards at the College’s alumni luncheon on July 13 were Daniel Rudy, a 2008 graduate from Mount Airy, Md., Claire Gilbert Ulrich, a…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Should stormwater improvements be a higher priority in Waynesboro? Waynesboro was looking at spending $1.2 million this year to get its long-awaited and long-debated stormwater-improvement project up and running, but that was before the new vice mayor, Frank Lucente, switched positions on the source of funding for…
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Op-Ed by Shepherd Bliss Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more Peak Oil theorists such as Richard Heinberg, James Howard Kunstler, Matthew Simmons and others turn out to be correct. Petroleum supplies are declining as demand increases. This unfolding trend will radically change human habitation on the Earth. Among the consequences will be the drastic…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Moving Waynesboro Forward. Three simple words. An interesting concept. We wanted to let Waynesboro voters know the stakes that were at play in the recent city-council elections. I’ve personally been hearing for years from residents frustrated that the city hasn’t been willing or otherwise able…
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