Seminars offer tips on weathering economic storm
Money’s tight for everybody now. It might help to get some ideas as to how to stretch your dollars as much as you can. The DuPont Community Credit Union is pitching in with some help in the form of three seminars offering Practical Solutions for Today’s Economy, as the event is being billed, on Tuesday in Waynesboro. Read more
Retired General
He didn’t have to say much more. “My priority is my wife,” Jim Critzer told me when I asked him about his decision to sell the Waynesboro Generals, which he had almost singlehandedly saved from oblivion a decade ago, back when it looked like the Valley League original might be moved out of town. Read more
Friday Events
Here is a list of events ongoing today in the Central Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia.
For a complete rundown of what is on the local events schedule, go to our Calendar of Events. Read more
Spinning irony
“This legislation is monumental,” Ben Carter, the president of the Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce, wrote in a partisan-tinged letter to the editor published in The News Virginian last week, in which he recited the GOP talking points on the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation making its way through Congress that would put into effect safeguards for people who eschew fancy suits for blue collars and might want to organize to try to improve their pay and benefits. Read more
Common Cents | GSA takes great pride in local presence
Next time you see a car, van or truck driving by you with a government license plate, look closely. Chances are there’s a GSA logo in the corner.
GSA is shorthand for the U.S. General Services Administration, quite possibly the largest federal agency you never heard of. But we’re a neighbor and part of your community in more ways than you might imagine. Read more
Bob Dickerman | Colonel Christmas
When Barack Obama took the oath of office as the 44th president of the United States on Jan. 20, I was thinking of Colonel Frank Christmas.
Colonel Christmas, an African-American veteran who had fought for his country through two wars, mostly in segregated units, was the oldest member of a 1961 class of newly-sworn-in Foreign Service Officers. Read more
No left turn?
A possible solution is in the works for the woefully inefficient stoplight at the corner of Main Street and Wayne Avenue in Downtown Waynesboro. You’re going to like it. Because it was supposed to have been implemented three years ago.
City manager Mike Hamp is recommending that left turns be eliminated at the intersection. He broached the idea with City Council last night to get the feedback of council members who have in turn been trying to get City Hall moving on some solution for several months. Read more
Virginia Tech Peace Center gets a hand from EMU
Twenty-one months ago, Professor Jerzy Nowak was writing a grant at Virginia Tech when student Seung-Hui Cho began a shooting rampage. When the shootings were over, Nowak’s wife Jocelyne Couture-Nowak was among the 32 who died. Read more
Budget amendment tied to CCCA gains support in House
One part of Staunton State Del. Chris Saxman’s proposal to prevent the closure of the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents is moving ahead gaining support in the Virginia General Assembly. Read more
Dorothy Jean Weaver | Israeli-Palestinian conflict is tragic for everyone
Gaza 2009. A scene of almost incalculable tragedy. Body count: Some 1,300 Palestinians, 13 Israelis. On one side of the border massive death, brutal destruction and unceasing terror rain down from the skies on a civilian population with nowhere to flee for safety. Untold misery and despair on the ground for men, women, and children without food, medicine, warmth, or even a safe place to hide. On the other side of the border constant fear and anxiety among other civilians not far away who spend their days in fear of air raid sirens and wonder daily where the next rockets will land. It is a terrifying scene for everyone affected. Read more
Shop green at Cranberry’s
You can shop green at Cranberry’s in Staunton – it’s official.
The Virginia Tourism Corp. has designated Cranberry’s Grocery & Eatery as a Virginia Green designation. “We had to apply to get this label,” says Linda Taylor, the manager of the eatery, “starting with a description of our recycling program – which in our case includes customers recycling egg cartons and plastic bags through us as well as our regular glass, newspaper, cardboard, aluminum and plastic recycling.” Read more
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Jim Bishop | Post-funeral ponderings: Thankful for solid support
Posted on January 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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