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Don Beyer has joined a group of six U.S. House Democrats who are introducing legislation that would impose economic sanctions on individuals and entities building or expanding settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.
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Seems we’re getting closer to figuring out why a News Leader reporter has been helping lead an effort of disaffected local Dems to try to discredit Augusta Free Press.
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One of the candidates for the Ward C seat on the Waynesboro School Board dropped out of the race on Monday.
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The local political activist whose since-deleted Facebook video led to the unraveling of a Waynesboro School Board campaign was back with another video that he posted on Saturday in which he absolved Kelvin Washington.
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Credit to News Leader reporter Lyra Bordelon for asking Jim Wood straight up this week about the “Pete Buttplug” controversy that got Waynesboro into the national headlines back in 2023.
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Kelvin Washington is ending his campaign for the Ward C seat on the Waynesboro School Board, amid revelations of actions on the part of supporters to advance false accusations against his opponent, the incumbent in Ward C, Debra Freeman.
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More often than not, I find myself at a loss for words to convey Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the relentless havoc that the Israeli government enables settlers to inflict upon Palestinians in the West Bank.
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The man who said in a since-deleted Facebook video that a Waynesboro School Board member had been let go from her job as the head of a city homeless shelter due to embezzlement has now retracted the accusation.
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The race for the Ward C seat on the Waynesboro School Board has devolved into dirty politics.
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A group raising money for Watts of Love, which works to bring light to people in parts of the world without electricity, will be riding through the Shenandoah Valley on its fourth annual 1,000 Miles for 1,000 Lights ride.
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