Augusta County: Ways our citizens can hold our law-breaking sheriff accountable
Augusta County Sheriff Donald Smith needs to be made to understand that he doesn’t get to choose what laws he enforces, and what laws he doesn’t want to enforce.
Augusta County Sheriff Donald Smith needs to be made to understand that he doesn’t get to choose what laws he enforces, and what laws he doesn’t want to enforce.
Augusta County Sheriff Donald Smith has now declared himself, in effect, a constitutional sheriff – the final arbiter within his jurisdiction on new state laws set to go into effect on July 1 on gun rights.
When people picture a bad wreck on Interstate 81, they imagine the dramatic stuff: the closed lanes, the helicopter, the line of brake lights stretching back miles.
Not a lot of details here, but Waynesboro Police are on the scene at a residence in the 600 block of Ivanhoe Avenue on the east side of the city for a death investigation.
The disgraced former Culpeper County sheriff pardoned by Donald Trump just happened to have issued a deputy badge to White House border czar Tom Homan in 2020.
It’s pretty obvious, and has been for a while, that Augusta County Commonwealth’s Attorney Tim Martin needs to recuse himself in the matter of the Dec. 17, 2025, officer-involved shooting of Dustin Griffin.
Former Waynesboro vice mayor Jim Wood, mute and politically irrelevant since the Buttplug-gate scandal that emerged weeks into his term on Waynesboro City Council, is actually running for re-election.
We’re six months and counting past the officer-involved shooting in Augusta County that killed Dustin Griffin, 42, as sheriff’s deputies were attempting to serve an arrest warrant on drug charges.
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