Growing pains: Valley dealing with growth
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The Shenandoah Valley is the place to be – and Staunton mayor John Avoli couldn’t be any happier that this is now the case.
Search Results for Waynesboro School Board
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Winners and losers in Wayne debate
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Column by Chris Graham The Wayne Theatre issue is all over but for the cryin’ – which promises to go on for some time despite the apparent resolution of the debate over whether or not the city should partner with the Wayne Theatre Alliance in a public-private project to turn the 81-year-old theatre building into…
Nighty night: What being a bedroom community really means
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The Greater Augusta area is a bedroom community for Charlottesville to the east and Harrisonburg to the north – that’s a fact.
Is the Wayne issue driving the city elections?
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The Top Story by Chris Graham It has been seven months since Waynesboro City Council decided against acting on a proposal from the Wayne Theatre Alliance to have the city participate in a public-private project to renovate the 1926 downtown landmark. You’d think from listening to the rhetoric in this spring’s city-council elections that…
The politics of teacher pay
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The group from John C. Myers Elementary School in Broadway was wrapping up its Thursday-afternoon field trip to downtown Harrisonburg when it happened upon a real-life civics lesson. Republican Party gubernatorial-nomination candidate Jerry Kilgore was at a Court Square eatery holding court with reporters on the issue of, yep,…
The ins and outs of homeowner tax relief
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The Top Story by Chris Graham It sounds like magic. The state comes in and guarantees that homeowners aren’t forced to bear the brunt of the tax burden for local governments, and, voila, it is done, and everybody is happy. Except for local-government officials, who have to figure out how to balance their books without…
Study in contrasts: Monroe, Reynolds vying for Ward B council seat
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Story by Chris Graham Tom Reynolds won election to represent Ward B on Waynesboro City Council in 2000 after receiving more than 80 percent of the votes cast in his two-way race with Blue Ridge Area Food Bank chief-executive officer Marty White. On Tuesday, Reynolds, a member of the faculty at Fishburne Military School, is…
