The townspeople of Craigsville, after initially objecting to the Augusta Correctional Center, embraced for decades the subsequent jail.
Author Archives: Tracy Pyles
Tracy Pyles: Lessons unlearned
In April of 1970, I was deployed as a third-class petty officer on the USS Richard E. Byrd, DDG-23, “Sea Power from Pole to Pole.”
Augusta County: Breaking down the proposed county budget for 2025-2026
In the upcoming Augusta County Board of Supervisors public hearing on the proposed county budget, county leaders are once again understating revenues and overstating what will be spent.
Tracy Pyles: Uncle Bill
To write about the presidential election in Augusta County is to beat your head against the wall or beat a dead horse, depending on your perspective.
Tracy Pyles: Augusta County, instead of rejecting solar, should let the sunshine in
When the Augusta Supervisors hear the words “solar energy,” do they think it a threat to county harmony, or a God sent gift needing only to be unwrapped?
Tracy Pyles: Now Augusta County leaders seem to be trying to ban the sun
The Augusta County Planning Commission recently gave a negative recommendation on a proposed solar farm.
Tracy Pyles: Another low blow from the Augusta County Board of Supervisors
This Friday, June 21, the taxpayers of Augusta County will be feeling the effects of a “low blow’ from the Augusta Board of Supervisors.
Augusta County School Board engaging in the old game of ‘smear the queer’
The game evolved into being called “rough and tumble.” But in the ‘50s, this simple chaos of one kid running with a football and all the other guys trying to tackle him and taking the ball, was known as “smear the queer.”
We’ve met the enemy in Augusta County, and it is the county government
People often ask me why the Augusta County Board of Supervisors continues to keep taxing, keep growing cash reserves while we taxpayers struggle to keep up with life and taxes.
Don’t participate in that sham of a public hearing on the Augusta County budget
Are the people of Augusta County living through their own period of high priest tax-scams and egregious “high and mightiness” by seven 1950s-era leaders?