The next level: City Council candidate Lorie Strother looks to help Waynesboro ‘move on up’
Waynesboro resident Lorie Strother believes the timing is right for her to step up to do more for her city by running for the Ward A seat on City Council.
Waynesboro resident Lorie Strother believes the timing is right for her to step up to do more for her city by running for the Ward A seat on City Council.
AugustaFreePress.com editor Chris Graham interviews Lorie Strother, the host of the Gateway Theatre’s Open Mic Talent Night, which returns on Thursday, Oct. 3.
The first Open Mic Talent Night of the season was intimate as usual with some new faces mixed with old. Speaking of old, one familiar act, The Early Dawn Drifters, debuted with a new member, Tyler, who took the crowd back to another place in time with his playing of the pedal steel guitar. My conversation with Tyler revealed that he’d been playing the instrument for only two years but had been playing the banjo for many more (I recollect 12 years).
Dave Goetze, the self-glossed “Major Dave,” the Republican nominee in the Ward A Waynesboro City Council race, sure has a lot to say about politics on his Facebook pages.
With high demand for housing, rising rents and eviction notices are leaving a growing number of Waynesboro residents scrambling, some on the verge of homelessness.
Waynesboro voters have a chance to set city government in a new direction in the 2024 elections, with a slate of candidates intent on moving the city away from the do-nothing attitude that has been entrenched here for a generation.
UVA has established a goal to support the development of 1,000 to 1,500 affordable housing units in Charlottesville and Albemarle County over the next decade on land owned by the University and the UVA Foundation.
UVA Health has established a 16-person Advisory Council that will inform and advise UVA Health leaders as they consider additional improvements to billing and collection policies and practices to better meet the needs of patients.
Strengthening the University’s relationship with the City of Charlottesville, County of Albemarle and the surrounding region is the goal of a new working group established by UVA President Jim Ryan.
Grow Waynesboro announced the final grant awards for four local businesses, helping them to create jobs and build a culture of entrepreneurship in Waynesboro.