Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
It was hard enough getting Kitty Lough to go into an independent-living facility, harder still to get her to accept the change in her lifestyle.
She never would have guessed back then that she’d miss it as much as she does now.
“She’s finally gotten over the stage of saying, I just don’t understand [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
She wasn’t trying to be Rosa Parks.
“We were just tired of the separate-but-equal thing. Because it certainly wasn’t separate-but-equal,” said Rita Wilson, who is retiring from Staunton City Council on June 30 after 16-plus years on the job, and who a generation ago made her first foray into public life by rather [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Elizabeth Geris
“Mary Baldwin College Bookstore, this is Elizabeth.”
It was all I could do to answer the nearby phone at this 166-year-old private school’s only campus bookstore, while apologizing to the 23-deep line of extremely patient young women that started at my cash register – young women whose arms were struggling to contain their [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
If you build it, they will come.
Yeah, I know, invoking “Field of Dreams” in a piece examining the economic aspects of a proposed $20 million baseball stadium is beyond cheesy.
But I do it to try to make you consider something that you might not otherwise. Namely, that the whole idea rests on [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
The Shenandoah Valley is recession-proof. Charlottesville is recession-proof.
I’ve heard people say this for years.
As the argument goes, the local economies have two big things going for them - major universities and agriculture.
Kids still go to school in recessions. And kids and everybody else still eat in recessions.
But …
Is that enough to make [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
Your first instinct during a recession is to cut back on extras like eating out, going to the theater, going on vacation.
Or is it?
“The recent press has amplified a growing anxiety that is out there about home finances. But for the most part, Americans tend to see their leisure time and vacations [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Links to stories included in The Edge from the Spring 2008 edition of The New Dominion Magazine …
- Third-year conversion
- Farm-a-cology
- Happy Birthday, JMU!
- Aaron’s Song
- Perriello brings Fifth into play
- Staunton native brings Civil War heroes to life
- Headlining Carnegie Hall - the Waynesboro High School Concert Choir
- Book tells author’s tale of personal [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
When you’re a TV weatherman, a trip to the local burger place can be a challenge not unlike the 10K races that Eric Pritchett runs when he’s not standing in front of a television screen telling us what Mother Nature has in store for us tomorrow.
“What’s it going to do on Monday?” [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
It’s 20 years for Bob Corso at WHSV-TV3 in Harrisonburg. That wasn’t the plan when Corso came back East.
“I never really thought about how long I’d be here, but I didn’t have a plan like OK, I’m going to be in Harrisonburg two years, then I’m going to go to, you know, [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
I confess - I’m a weather junkie, no, a weather nerd.
I know the lingo like you might know football lingo or politics parlor talk.
Embedded thunderstorms - yes.
Coastal lows that have the potential to be a Nor’easter. I’m there.
I get jazzed up over Alberta Clippers. And can’t get enough of El Nino.
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
When you’re a news reporter - print, radio, TV - it comes with the job that sometimes you have to rush to the scene of a car accident or fire or some other such catastrophe to tell folks what is going on.
And it doesn’t make it any easier that it’s your job [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
The subject isn’t evolution, and the barristers aren’t William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. But the upcoming trial of a Staunton adult-video store owner on obscenity charges has some of that Scopes Monkey Trial flavor to it.
Doesn’t it?
I mean, on the one side, you have the fundamentalists who have been breathing fire [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
He has represented Larry Flynt - which says most of what you need to know about the legal background of Paul Cambria.
Let’s just say that he’s done this - defending someone standing accused on obscenity charges dealing with the production or sale of pornography - before.
Which could explain why Staunton Commonwealth’s attorney [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
Is there a disagreement among the principals behind the Citizens Task Force Against Pornography on the direction of the community effort?
I don’t think so. But there does seem to be at the least a difference of opinion as to what the task force’s goals should be.
“Our number-one goal was to get the [...]
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