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• Ad Watch: Obama ‘This Year’
  Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net The Barack Obama campaign is launching a pre-emptive strike at the John McCain campaign with the release of “This Year,” which responds to news reports from Saturday in which McCain campaign officials promised to “turn a page” from discussions of the economy with assaults on Obama that began yesterday with GOP vice-presidential [...]
• Videocast: Barack Obama in Newport News
  Video from Barack Obama’s campaign stop in Newport News on Saturday. Length: 36:41       
• Live Blog: College Football Saturday
  Moderated by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net Join The Augusta Free Press today for our College Football Saturday live blog. We’ll be discussing throughout the day the Virginia Tech-Western Kentucky, James Madison-Hofstra and Virginia-Maryland games. AFP editor Chris Graham will be in the press box in Scott Stadium for the 7 p.m. ‘Hoos-Terps game. (Yes, you can feel sorry for me [...]
• Business and Politics: Bailout rescue passes House
  Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net And just like that, we had ourselves a bailout rescue. The House voted 263-171 today to pass a compromise $850 billion plan to buy up securities from Wall Street lenders to take pressure off the financial and credit markets, just four days after a vote on a similar legislative proposal failed [...]
• White House ‘08: Obama strengthens lead in polls
  Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net Barack Obama has a seven-point lead over John McCain in both the Gallup and Rasmussen Reports daily-tracking polls released today. The lead for Obama in the Gallup track is 49 percent to 42 percent. Rasmussen gauged the Obama lead at 51 percent to 44 percent. A scan of the leading national polls has [...]
• The Valley Blue Dog: Do as I say, not as I do?
  Column by Steven Sisson It’s becoming clear as mud after last night’s debate that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is worst running mate since Thomas Eagleton in 1972. McCain’s political strategy ensuring women will vote for the Republican ticket because Palin’s sexuality is condescending to say the least. To quote Charlie Chan, the “mud of bewilderment becoming a [...]
• Waynesboro: Best Western-Waynesboro honored
  Staff Report The Best Western Waynesboro Inn & Suites Conference Center has received the Best Western Chairman’s Award, the hotel chain’s highest honor for outstanding quality standards. The Chairman’s Award recognizes Best Western International hotels with a perfect quality assurance score of 1,000 points out of a possible 1,000. Hotels must also meet Best Western’s requirements for [...]
• Waynesboro: Credit union wins three state awards
  Staff Report The Waynesboro-based DuPont Community Credit Union has won three community service awards in competitions sponsored by the Virginia Credit Union League and the Credit Union National Association. DCCU earned a first-place award in the Desjardins Youth Financial Education Awards, which honor credit unions for their commitment to teaching personal finance basics to young people. The [...]
• Waynesboro: This weekend at Stone Soup
  Staff Report Nonesuch has the Friday-night gig at Stone Soup Books and Cafe in Downtown Waynesboro this week. The band’s 15th to 18th century Euro and American music offerings will begin at 6 p.m. There is no cover charge, but seating is limited. Call 540.943.0084 for seating availability. Tomorrow, Stone Soup is hosting a Conversational Spanish Class beginning at [...]
• Winners and Losers: ‘Hoos, Hokies headed in different directions
  Column by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net HOKIES GET BREATHER AFTER TRIO OF GRITTY WINS: Frank Beamer remembers when Western Kentucky was a big game. “We were both in the western part of Kentucky, and that was a big game back then,” said Beamer, who coached at Murray State before returning to his alma mater at Virginia Tech and [...]
• Business and Economy: Unemployment rate remains at 6.1 percent
  Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net Unemployment held at 6.1 percent in September, completing a 12-month cycle that saw the ranks of the unemployed grow by 2.2 million Americans. Among the interesting tidbits in the data released by the U.S. Department of Labor this morning: - The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) stands [...]
• Videocast: The vice-presidential debate
  Video from C-SPAN’s coverage of Thursday’s vice-presidential debate. Length: 1:32:00       
• Harrisonburg: Retired JMU lab coordinator honored for alternative fuel research
  Staff Report Retired James Madison University Alternative Fuel Vehicle Lab coordinator Randy Poag was recently inducted into the Nashville Auto Diesel College Hall of Fame for his contributions to JMU’s pioneering work in biodiesel and alternative fuels. “Randy’s guidance in the AFV lab was integral to the success of many projects,” said Christie-Joy Brodrick Hartman, the former [...]
• Harrisonburg: A feast fit for a Royal
  Story by Andrea Schrock Wenger Bibb lettuce that traveled about 10 miles from Marlan Showalter’s farm to the table formed the base of a veggie wrap that was among the fare served at Eastern Mennonite University dining hall’s first “harvest meal” of locally-grown food, held Oct. 1. “The meal was amazing,” said Leah Risser, a sophomore liberal-arts [...]
• The FlyLady: Capture the Breeze
  FlyLady column by Marla Cilley Did you ever just wonder why you are here and what it is you are supposed to be doing with your life? When I was a child I never knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. Even as a young mother I did not have a clue about [...]