Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
“Why do you guys always do this kind of thing at night?” a student asked Terry Howell, the founder of the Central Virginia Paranormal Research Group, who was at Randolph College earlier this year to investigate the longstanding tale of ghosts haunting the former women’s school.
“If something’s there,” Howell said in response, [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
It doesn’t take a mathematician to figure out why Nelson County lacks even adequate broadband infrastructure.
The county’s 15,000 residents are spread out over 471 square miles - and without a true population center, it is essentially cost-prohibitive for broadband carriers to be able to lay down the fiber that would be needed [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Column by Erik Curren
“The media backlash is just beginning,” says an editorial in the Ecologist, an edgy environmental magazine out of Britain. “Slowly, almost imperceptibly, global warming is morphing into ‘global boring’.”
It’s not that anyone much outside of talk radio questions the science anymore – led by Newt Gingrich, serious Republican leaders are now saying [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
We grew up with “Family Ties” and cable TV, trips to the mall and video games.
Then they called us Generation X - and no, we didn’t know what that was supposed to mean, either.
Now we’re in our 30s - and maybe it’s the remote control and microwave oven that forced this on [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Chris Graham
I had an inkling as to what the meeting was going to be about - just from the tone of the e-mail.
The station management at WVPT, a public-television station based in Harrisonburg whose audience over the air extends from Charlottesville to Winchester and by satellite stretches into the Washington, D.C., market, had [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Story by Stephanie Pendleton
When arriving at The Little Grill Collective in Harrisonburg, crowds of fashionable hipsters and health-conscious patrons make lines in and out side of the door.
The place is always crowded. Especially on Mondays. Mondays are free. It’s like a soup kitchen, only the dining is family-style.
Ron Copeland greets his customers with an announcement. [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by chrisgraham
Column by Matthew Warner
“Let’s face it, lining the walkway to one’s front door with headless creatures, bones and blood is not the way to make a child feel welcome.”
— Jenelle Watson
As I watch Christmas decorations go up, I’m reminded of a fascinating drama that played out last year in my local newspaper, The News Leader [...]
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