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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Not a good year for my ACC, no sir, no way. Football saw us go without a national-championship contender … again. I know, Virginia Tech was #3 in the final pre-bowl BCS, but then the Hokies lost to Kansas in the Orange Bowl. Florida State…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] UVa. guard Sharnee Zoll and JMU guard Tamera Young are among the 20 players invited to the 2008 WNBA Draft. Zoll, a 5-7 point guard, and Young, a 6-2 shooting guard, will join luminaries including Tennessee center Candice Parker, LSU star Sylvia Fowles and ACC standouts Crystal Langhorne and Laura…
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Column by Jim Bishop Is it irreverent to suggest that the Ten Commandments were not an immediately smashing success – centuries ago as well as today? When Moses came down from Mount Sinai after receiving God’s laws and saw the people preoccupied with hanky-panky, he became so incensed that he threw the stone tablets to…
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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 [email protected] Sixth District Democratic Party Committee chair David Layman has died. Layman died of an apparent heart attack that he suffered at a committee meeting in Lexington Tuesday night. Layman’s passing was first reported on hburgnews.com this morning. “David was one of the hard-working and unsung people behind the scenes who…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A member of the Waynesboro Rotary Club will be leading a trip to South Africa as part of a Group Study Exchange program of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. Dave Segars, a Waynesboro-based engineer, will be heading the exchange of young professionals from Western Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. The…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It was coming up on spring, and you could sense the vitality in the air. And then, suddenly, you could hear it. At 10:30 p.m. the night of March 14, 1908, a loud noise thundered through the streets of Harrisonburg. It was enough to get dozens of people to pick…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] The life of a sportswriter … I had a 9 p.m. Sunday deadline to get my ACC women’s basketball postseason honors ballot back to the appropriate people for counting purposes. I wanted to catch a game or two Sunday afternoon before turning it in, and…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen The uncertainly titled “Definitely, Maybe,” currently playing almost everywhere in the universe, has all the makings of a successful 1940s romantic comedy. And even though most of the movie critics loved it, it’s still definitely, maybe, not so hot. You’ve got a cute guy, some cute gals,…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Now that we have our women’s ACC ballot out of the way, it’s time to talk men’s hoops. My ballot for the All-ACC men’s basketball team is due Sunday night at 9 p.m. And of course we have a lot of basketball to be played…
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