Story/Video: Johnson formally enters Ward C race

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Report by Chris Graham [email protected]   What Waynesboro needs to do: “We need to find innovative ways to get good-paying jobs to our city.” The economy is the focus for Ward C City Council candidate Robert Johnson Jr. “Since 1996, the CIty of Waynesboro has shed 2,400 factory jobs through layoffs, plant idlings and company closings….

PETA demands Wilson Memorial cancel donkey basketball game

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected]   A PETA news release sent out on Thursday is demanding that Wilson Memorial High School cancel a scheduled donkey basketball game set for Wednesday, March 10. The game is organized as a fundraiser for the school’s After Prom Celebration, according to a news item on the school’s website. The…

Stonewalled: Petition or no petition, Chamber not talking

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected]   An attorney representing former Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Ben Carter as had been promised delivered an envelope regarding Carter’s firing to the Chamber on Wednesday, but the delivery was incomplete. The Chamber’s Board of Directors notified members today that the envelope from Frank Hilton…

Goodnight, Grace: Walkers bring Players production to life

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Column by Chris Graham [email protected]    Alex is a telephone repairman on a late-night call. Grace is an aging-before-her-time twentysomething on the prowl in her own apartment. Grace thinks Alex is, well, a prowler. She saw him climbing in her window, after all. Alex doesn’t mind that she thinks what she thinks. He thinks it…

Frank Nolen: Let the SCC set rates

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Column by Frank Nolen Submit guest columns: [email protected]   In 2007 the General Assembly passed legislation that greatly reduced the ability of the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to set just and reasonable electric rates. The result has been a 60 percent increase in the electric rates paid by customers of the Appalachian Power Company and…

Jim Bishop: There’s no business like snow business

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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected]   “For to the snow He says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ And to the downpour and the rain, ‘Be strong.’” – Job 37:6 (NASB)   Snow, especially when it piles up, complicates our lives at the same time that it simplifies. We should welcome the interruptions that…

EMU hoops is going dancing

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected]    The Eastern Mennonite University men’s basketball team is NCAA Tournament-bound for the first time in school history. The Royals (22-4) will also serve as hosts for a pool of games on opening weekend. EMU will play Centre College (Danville, Kent.) in the first round on Friday. Centre was 18-8…

Just rearrange the deck chairs

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Why are our local school systems going to a job fair when they’re cutting jobs?   Story by Chris Graham [email protected]    It seems counterintuitive at first glance – to have a job fair to recruit potential new employees when the economic reality that you’re facing has you considering deep and painful cuts to staff….