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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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Story By Erin Gutzwiller Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reached the conclusion that the only way we could change America was without violence. Andrew Young was among those who joined King, who was assassinated 40 years ago this week, in the fight to extend basic civil rights to African Americans. Young was welcomed with open…
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Story By Erin Gutzwiller In the small town of Bridgewater sits a small private college. It is a college that is affiliated with the huge church on top of the hill, known as the Church of the Brethren. According to academic-affairs dean Carol Scheppard, “Bridgewater focuses on the quality of education, introducing students to the…
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Story by Chris Graham General Assembly candidates from up and down the Shenandoah Valley will meet in Harrisonburg and Woodstock to discuss environmental concerns including fish kills in the Shenandoah River and other water-quality issues.
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop It’s that tad sad time of year. Temperatures and humidity assure us that it’s still summer, but subtle changes are blowin’ in the wind.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham It’s almost an Olympiad away – but from the perspective of the people responsible for reducing point-source pollution into the Chesapeake Bay, 2010 is just around the corner.
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Landscape architecture is the planning and design of outdoor spaces so they are functional, attractive, sustainable, and suited to the property.
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