Dinner Diva | Tuna casserole
In the scheme of things, there is nothing more important than knowing what’s for dinner. Well, maybe that’s a little hyperbolous (is there such a word?) but you get my drift, especially if those four little words send chills up your spine, “Mom, what’s for dinner?” Read more
A chance for us Dems to gain traction
The fight over the reassessments in Augusta County that I and many others here locally think are out of whack with economic reality isn’t about partisan politics. That’s what we keep hearing, anyway.
It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, if you ask me. Because the reason this isn’t about partisan politics is that we Democrats aren’t doing anything to make this about partisan politics. Read more
Saving Gabe, Part II
Julie Irvine has been fighting for the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents for the past several weeks. Now she’s facing another fight.
“I have no insurance at the end of the month,” said Irvine, whose 9-year-old son, Gabe, has been in and out of hospitals dating back to last summer for treatment for depression and pervasive development disorder, a form of autism, and who is now out of a job. Read more
Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009
- Sports: Groh completes staff for 2009, Thursday, 3 p.m.
- Virginia Politics: Mims elected AG, Thursday, 3 p.m.
- Virginia Politics: Webb introduces health-care legislation for military retirees, Thursday, 3 p.m.
- Local News: Salvation Army in Staunton announces food drive, Thursday, 10:15 a.m.
- Economy: Initial unemployment claims show surprising increase, Thursday, 10:15 a.m.
- Virginia Politics: Deeds green homeowner bill on its way to governor, Thursday, 10:15 a.m.
- Sports: VCU knocks off JMU in men’s hoops, Thursday, 10:15 a.m.
- Sports: Diamond Dukes upset Maryland, Thursday, 10:15 a.m.
AFP, ND editor named GM of Waynesboro Generals
The Waynesboro Generals are announcing today that Chris Graham of Waynesboro has been named the team’s new general manager.
Graham, 36, is the co-owner of Augusta Free Press Publishing in Downtown Waynesboro and the editor of The New Dominion monthly print magazine and Augusta Free Press Online based in Waynesboro. The Staunton native grew up in Augusta County and is a graduate of Wilson Memorial High School and the University of Virginia. Read more
Big Read to kick off tomorrow
A murder mystery starring Waynesboro City Councilwoman Lorie Smith, News Leader community conversations editor Cindy Corell and Staunton school superintendent Steve Nichols will help kick off the 2009 Big Read Thursday.
The mystery, The Revenge of the Maltese Falcon, also starring Augusta County Board of Supervisors member Nancy Sorrells and Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge director-emeritus Harold Cook, is part of the festivities surrounding the Big Read, which will focus on the Dashiell Hammett thriller The Maltese Falcon. Read more
Supes duped by legal jargon
The newspaper headlines suggesting that the Augusta County Board of Supervisors’ hands are tied with respect to legal remedies regarding the widely disputed general property reassessment come across to me as misleading.
It’s not exactly breaking news to me that the county attorney, Pat Morgan, would say that he can’t find any “lawful way,” as he wrote in a report to the Board of Supervisors presented on Monday, that the Board can halt or adjust the reassessment. I say that because the strategy offered by the single member of the Board of Supervisors, Pastures Supervisor Tracy Pyles, who has been advocating for the large contingent of county residents who have been fighting this fight, is not at all a “lawful” one, but that has been the point all along. Read more
