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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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
“Inga.”
It was the big to-do back in 1968 when it was released in America.
“Filmed entirely in Sweden,” a snapshot on movietime.com relates, “‘Inga’ brims with a European sensuality and eroticism that shocked American audiences upon its release in 1968.”
That about sums it up right there, doesn’t it?
“When I got word that a [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
It wasn’t that there was much left downtown, but Phil Lemons knew that whatever traffic there had been before the West End took off with the opening of Wal-Mart in Waynesboro in 2003 was pretty much going, going, gone.
“Having experienced it in other towns, whenever a shopping center comes to the town, [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
Somebody asked Don Morris to sign a petition protesting the pending arrival of Wal-Mart in Waynesboro six years ago.
That the longtime Downtown Waynesboro business owner didn’t is an indication of where his thoughts are on economic-development issues.
“That to me was a no-brainer. Staunton had a Wal-Mart, Staunton had a Lowe’s. It might [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
Wondering what the new Democratic Party majority in the Virginia Senate means for rural Virginia?
The chair of the Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee is from Alexandria.
You know, in Northern Virginia.
Extreme
Northern Virginia.
“That was really the power shift, much more than how everybody’s focused on Republican-Democrat. It’s really the power shift to [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
Amid a backdrop of men of various sizes and numbers of tattoos alternatively kicking and punching the air and occasionally a trainer wielding oversized protective gloves, the almost preternatural calm of Tyler Moyer stood out to me.
At least what I was reading was calm. I soon found out that he was a [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
So I’m talking with MMA athlete Dustin Honeycutt backstage about his match - which he lost by submission - and about the broken thumb that he suffered early on that pretty much ate away his chances of coming out on top.
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
The game plan for 24-year-old Adam Prickett going into his Mixed Martial Arts in the Valley IV fight with Eric Ohene-Bekoe had been to keep things at standup as much as possible.
But the Verona man went back to his training at Valley Chute Box in Harrisonburg and decided to shoot for Ohene-Bekoe’s [...]
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