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Chris Fordney: Let the gamers roll on

Last week was the calm before the storm. High school football began Friday night.
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Bob Wooten: Signs of new season

Out on Interstate 64, heading west after a trip to Hampton Roads, I followed a large SUV for several miles on Sunday, wondering all the time whether there was actually a driver behind the wheel.
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Fordney: Might get sued for this

I almost didn't write a column this week about the $30 million lawsuit against the town of Front Royal because I was nervous about it.
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Bob Wooten: Jim Boy for office? No, thanks

Jim Boy was the weirdest guy I can remember from my college days. He and I weren't really buddies. Jim Boy -- a nickname I doubt he ever realized he'd picked up -- was just a friend of a friend.
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Fordney: Dancers to sizzle at city's autopark

Hot salsa -- both the sauce and the dance -- is coming to Winchester. And all for a good cause.
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Bob Wooten: Motorists beware, it's Yard Crawl Day

Driving through Toms Brook on my way to work Friday morning, I had my first close call with a bargain hunter.
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Chris Fordney: Dummy holds up interstate

What is it about Interstate 81 that brings out the dummy in people? First, there's what I call the "blocker" -- this time, a Ford Expedition in the left lane, hovering just off the rear bumper of a tractor-trailer in the right lane.
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Bob Wooten: T.V. show effective as torture method

Fifty-two minutes into the hour-long TV show, I wondered just how much my IQ had dropped.
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Chris Fordney: Derbies hit with changes

If you're watching the demolition derbies during this summer's round of county fairs, you might notice some changes:
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Bob Wooten: The real beauty of West Virginia

The hairy little beggar obviously couldn't read. Otherwise, he wouldn't have come looking for a handout. There were plenty of signs saying "do not feed the wildlife."
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Bob Wooten: Snakes: No use for 'em

My Grandma Anderson has been much on my mind this week. Gone for more than 20 years now, I remember she had a wealth of small-town wisdom about a wide range of topics, from the weather and raising African violets to politics and canning vegetables.
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Chris Fordney: Patients on more choppers

The week before last, this newspaper ran a photo of a wreck on Interstate 81 in which a pickup pulling a camper trailer overturned near Toms Brook, injuring two people. The highway was shut down while a medical helicopter flew in to transport one of the victims to Winchester Medical Center.
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Bob Wooten: A quiet visit to our own morgue

It's a musty, dusty room in a dark corner of The Northern Virginia Daily's basement, and it's where we keep our dead.
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Chris Fordney: Melting down for all to see

Last week was a week for public meltdowns. No, I'm not talking about the weather, although there was plenty of meltability there. Regarding that, my ninth-grade science teacher, kind of an odd dude, told us the best way to stay...
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Bob Wooten: Shenandoah appreciation grows after flat is fixed

Considering it started with one really bad hour, Thursday turned into a good day. The mini-adventure started early that morning when my wife headed off for work, then popped back into the house only moments later. A tire on her...
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Chris Fordney: Sheriff: Bearcat is a need

When I heard that the Warren County Sheriff's Office is getting a $273,000 Lenco Bearcat armored personnel carrier, it reminded me of my nightly runs for coffee over to the 7-Eleven in Strasburg.
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Bob Wooten: Victims' families deserve sympathy

Among all the baby sitters my wife and I did business with while raising our daughter, Erica was the least likely to stand out in a crowd.
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Chris Fordney: Needed: Tracks to trails

West Virginia is more fun and cool than Virginia.
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Chris Fordney: A rapid day on the river

As I looked down the gullet of a class 5 rapids on the New River, several thoughts passed through my mind. Boy, I wish I had updated our life insurance policies before we left.
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Bob Wooten: Records release to clear the town air

I think I caught a whiff of something new in Front Royal earlier this week. It might be my imagination, but I detected the faint scent of disinfectant in the air around Town Hall.
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Chris Fordney: Big Bang story was a dud in the press

One of the most interesting and significant news stories of the past few weeks somehow slipped through the cracks and ran under the radar screen.
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Bob Wooten: Strasburg makes an error in judgment

Every news story has an arc, and this one looked like a pop fly to the pitcher's mound -- straight up, and straight down.
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Chris Fordney: Rail raid wasn't so great

There's an old saying in the news business: Nothing will mess up a good story like facts. That can also be applied to history.
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Bob Wooten: Leaders can't set politics to side

When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, President Roosevelt vowed to defeat the Axis powers.
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Chris Fordney: Looking back for friends

Having gone to high schools on three different continents and not keeping up with anyone I knew back then, I'm always intrigued by people who still hang around with their old buddies from their alma mater.
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Bob Wooten: Seafood is heart of the Big Easy

It was a small joint just a few steps off Bourbon Street. It didn't look like much from the outside, and the first impression on the inside wasn't all that encouraging.
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Chris Fordney: Living with the easy kid

My dad's not feeling well and asked me if I would write his column this week. I think it started when my older sister called from New York City and said she had just visited Times Square.
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Bob Wooten: Festival hits all the right chords

Snow was still on the ground this winter when I first let my thoughts turn to picnics and music under the summer stars.
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Chris Fordney: The old skill of loafing

One of my wife's friends told me recently that I spend too much time "loafing." I was struck by her use of that word, which suggests an old-time term for what we might today call "loitering."
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Bob Wooten: One word for all the graduates

Of all the scenes in "The Graduate," a movie with only a few very brief moments between iconic scenes, Dustin Hoffman's homecoming stands out right now.
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Chris Fordney: Tossing out the kitchen and sink

Sunday was a day to appreciate all mothers, beginning with my mother-in-law. She came to visit at Christmas from California, looked around our kitchen and pronounced us in dire need of a makeover.
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Bob Wooten: Clouds hovering after the election

The election is over and the voters have spoken. In Front Royal, though, there is still some question about what they actually said.
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Chris Fordney: Captain Video, a TV hero

The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival sometimes feels like a time capsule, with lots of men in uniforms escorting beautiful young women who look down from elaborately decorated floats.
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Bob Wooten: Recipe for the Bloom

Let's call the dish Beefcake and Cheesecake.
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Chris Fordney: Queens: Mature is better

It's Apple Blossom week, when we can turn our attention away for a moment from the national preoccupations with the deficit, health care reform and Heidi Montag's botched boob job.
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Bob Wooten: Council may see shakeup in May

At least six people at the Front Royal Town Hall have to be asking themselves an unpleasant question right about now: Will we still have jobs when the polls close on May 4?
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Chris Fordney: College fest was real riot

How about those wild and crazy college kids! Even though the notorious Springfest block party at James Madison University is fading from the headlines, we can expect that it will be the topic of dinner table conversations for weeks to come as kids head home and parents and alumni get firsthand accounts of what happened.
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Bob Wooten: Big, bad bear is fingered in caper

The crime scene was large, foul-smelling, unsettling and humorous, all at the same time. Fortunately, the only thing the thief got away with was the picked-over carcass of a turkey dinner.
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Chris Fordney: In denial of coal's damages

About 10 years ago, when I was working as a freelance writer, I was assigned to cover a conference in Charleston, W.Va., about mountaintop removal mining.
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Bob Wooten: Heights can give a fright in print

A familiar feeling came over me while reading Wednesday morning's newspaper. When I turned to the Region section and saw the large photo in the center of the page my skin crawled and my stomach turned.
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Chris Fordney: Vintage tunage: Let it be

Of all the ways to lose your money these days, none is harder to resist than record companies repackaging old music and trotting it out as something new from the best years of rock 'n' roll.
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Bob Wooten: Errors hit even the best players

Derek Jeter, one of the biggest stars in professional baseball, has an occasional bad day with the glove.
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Chris Fordney: Hooters?Just down the street?

About a year and a half ago, I commented in a lighthearted manner in this space about the lack of a Hooters restaurant in the Winchester area, wondering whether the company considered us too staid a community for such an establishment.
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Bob Wooten: Manners forgotten by some politicos

It's too bad Alma Porter isn't in charge of Congress. Mrs. Porter, God rest her soul, was my 11th-grade algebra teacher, and she ruled her class with an iron fist.
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Chris Fordney: The junk is all in the label

A few hours into every copy-editing shift here at The Daily Miracle, I'm faced with the same decision.
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Bob Wooten: Murder is not a fair response to youth

Being young and foolish is far too often a fatal combination.
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Bob Wooten: Festival weathers anything

A chilly gust of wind swept down from the mountainside, and I knew we were about to get wet.
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Chris Fordney: Awesome is cooler than cool

Every generation has its special words. When my generation's parents would say something was "super," or "neat," we would say it was "cool," mainly because we wanted to sound cooler than our parents.
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Bob Wooten: As paper business lives, so shall we

The timing for the group photo was just right -- everyone was full of beer and burgers, and the band had taken a break.
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Chris Fordney: Guests join trip to park

The people up at Shenandoah National Park are encouraging everyone to go camping this summer, so we took them up on it.
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Bob Wooten: Funding cuts spell danger on highways

I was driving home last Sunday from a trip out of town when a huge gator showed me his teeth and then put the bite on me.

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Out on Interstate 64, heading west after a trip to Hampton Roads, I followed a large SUV for several miles on Sunday, wondering all the time whether there was actually a driver behind the wheel.

August 23, 2010

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I almost didn't write a column this week about the $30 million lawsuit against the town of Front Royal because I was nervous about it.

August 21, 2010

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Jim Boy was the weirdest guy I can remember from my college days. He and I weren't really buddies. Jim Boy -- a nickname I doubt he ever realized he'd picked up -- was just a friend of a friend.

August 16, 2010

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Hot salsa -- both the sauce and the dance -- is coming to Winchester. And all for a good cause.

August 14, 2010

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Driving through Toms Brook on my way to work Friday morning, I had my first close call with a bargain hunter.

August 9, 2010

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What is it about Interstate 81 that brings out the dummy in people? First, there's what I call the "blocker" -- this time, a Ford Expedition in the left lane, hovering just off the rear bumper of a tractor-trailer in the right lane.

August 7, 2010

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Fifty-two minutes into the hour-long TV show, I wondered just how much my IQ had dropped.









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