Wait continues on ED director

Sometime this spring - that’s the time frame for having a new economic-development director on board in Waynesboro.
“We’ve developed a recruitment profile, and we’re going ahead with advertising after the holidays,” assistant city manager Jim Shaw told me this week, laying out the plan for filling the position left vacant by the departure of former economic-development director Meghan Williamson on Aug. 1. Read more

Jim Bishop | Columnist (Almost) Gets Lump of Coal in Christmas Stocking

The Grinch came within an inch of ruining Christmas for my wife and me.
I blame no one but myself. I’m embarrassed to give a public disclosure of this nightmare before Christmas, but if my grievous error spares at least one other person from a similar experience, it’s worth it.
In retrospect, the timing was likely key to my falling for the ploy - a fraudulent phone call mid-afternoon on Christmas Eve. I’d just finished wrapping my last gift and was peeling steamed shrimp for our family gathering about an hour and a half away. Read more

Earth Talk | What do we have left?

Dear EarthTalk: How much “old growth” forest is left in the United States and is it all protected from logging at this point?
- John Foye, via e-mail Read more

The FlyLady | To resolve or not to resolve

None of us like change in any form or fashion! Every New Year’s Eve we are faced with that proverbial issue: to resolve or not to resolve! The dictionary defines resolve with “to make up your mind” and “to do something.” This means that in order to make up our minds we have to change what we have been doing to do something different. Change is so hard for us! Read more

Dinner Diva | Children’s nutrition

This morning I was reading an article about unhealthy kids. The author of the article had interviewed a doctor named Fuhrman who said a couple of very provocative things. In the past 10 years, diabetes in children has doubled and in his practice and those of his colleagues, they are seeing the beginnings of heart disease occurring in children! Read more

Videocast | Hokies roll in Orange Bowl

Cincinnati scored two minutes into its first BCS game, and then Bud Foster’s defense took control, forcing four Bearcats turnovers and holding the Big East champs scoreless for the final 58 minutes in a 20-7 Virginia Tech win in Thursday’s Orange Bowl. The Associated Press reporting. Length: 0:52. Read more