http://www.eightyone.info/online Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:32:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Great Believer Jennie Amison faces the possible end to Gemeinschaft as we know it and refuses to give up. by Perry Neel and Deona Landes Houff photography by Woods Pierce Jennie Amison believes. She believes that because she's recovered from drug and alcohol addiction, anyone can. She believes that even after she got sober, God ... http://www.eightyone.info/online/?p=900  Feb. 20 - March 20, 2009 The General Assembly restored enough funding to keep the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents open in Staunton.  A budget offered by Tim Kaine had called for the center's closing. The Psychiatric Society of Virginia named Del. Chris Saxman (R-Staunton) "Legislator of the Year" ... http://www.eightyone.info/online/?p=901 A Fond Farewell to Our Readers This month's cover headline of "Tough Love" could not be more fitting. I have loved eightyone, and it's been tough. I am so sorry that this will be our final issue. eightyone rarely made a profit, I never took a salary and in a ... http://www.eightyone.info/online/?p=902 On Food and Words by Kirsten Parmer/kirstenparmer@gmail.com I credit my parents for my love of food and words. In our house, we devoured both with equal gusto. My mother read aloud to us long past the age when it was really necessary. In the evenings, my brothers and I would curl ... http://www.eightyone.info/online/?p=903 A Miracle Close to Home Tide Spring in Northern Rockingham still amazes. by Nancy Bondurant Jones/nbjrawley@aol.com  Winter skies deceived this year.  Dark clouds quilted overhead often enough yet scant rain or snow resulted.  The summer drought had filtered through autumn and then marked winter as well.  Will April live up to its reputation ... http://www.eightyone.info/online/?p=904 photo by Mackenzie Grimes/grimes26@gmail.com  Penn Laird, October 2008 http://www.eightyone.info/online/?p=905 They Don't Call it 'Tax Bite' for Nothing Tax preparation has become more painful than hemorrhoids. by Judy Gruen/judy@judygruen.com Like a lunatic, I've frizzled away two days in fruitless search of a two-inch square blue receipt that proves that I paid ten bucks to park downtown for a business meeting seven months ago. ... http://www.eightyone.info/online/?p=907 Case Closed Staunton Commonwealth's Attorney Ray Robertson puts two pieces of local theater behind him. by Perry Neel/skepticume@comcast.net photography by Jason Grogan/groganjc@gmail.com Shakespeare aside, the biggest theater to hit Staunton recently has been of the courthouse variety. In August, a jury watched three hours and 33 minutes of dirty movies in the city's obscenity ... http://www.eightyone.info/online/?p=857 Graveyard Love I thoroughly enjoyed the February article on cemeteries by Perry Neel. It reminded me of riding bikes with my kids to this abandoned little cemetery a couple of miles from our house back in Illinois.  The kids were always excited when we went there and I enjoyed sharing my ... http://www.eightyone.info/online/?p=858 Jan. 20-Feb. 20, 2009 Invista and United Workers Inc. union reached a tentative agreement that will result in fewer than expected being laid off at the Waynesboro plant. Hershey's in Stuarts Draft announced temporary layoffs a week after it held a job fair to hire 120 people. A company spokesman ... http://www.eightyone.info/online/?p=861