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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Should stormwater improvements be a higher priority in Waynesboro? Waynesboro was looking at spending $1.2 million this year to get its long-awaited and long-debated stormwater-improvement project up and running, but that was before the new vice mayor, Frank Lucente, switched positions on the source of funding for…
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Column by Mike Hodge As you might know, I had the opportunity to cover President Bush’s visit to Monticello last week. And as you might know, the visit was marred by a string of interruptions from protestors who disrupted what was supposed to be a ceremony celebrating America’s newest citizens on our nation’s 232nd birthday.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A four- to five-point lead for Barack Obama. That is the story in today’s poll data from Rasmussen Reports and Gallup. WIth leaners included, Obama holds the same 49 percent-to-44 percent edge over John McCain in the Rasmussen Reports daily tracking poll that he held yesterday. Today is the 12th…
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Item by Jim Bishop The walls will soon come tumblin’ down. Oakwood residence hall at Eastern Mennonite University, beloved by many alumni as an enclave for male pranksters, located on the quad adjacent to Maplewood and Elmwood residences, will be demolished late August. A new 120-room residence hall will replace Oakwood with a projected budget…
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Letter from Janice Lee Allen During one of my home visits while campaigning for U.S. Congress, I knocked on a door, and a mother answered. She invited me in and asked me to walk over and meet her son. She said: “This is my son, and he is dying from leukemia.” The young boy, I…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] “Wait and see.” That sums things up rather nicely. I’ve been spending a good deal of time the past few days talking with city-council members, department heads and line employees in City Hall to try to gauge opinion about what life is going to be like when the new…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Tom Reynolds can hear his dad’s voice today. “Dad used to tell me, Son, you have bigger fish to fry here. I’ve got a church that’s looking for a significant amount of leadership. They’ve been gentle with me as a part-time pastor, but as a full-time pastor, there’s going to…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Bad political move on the part of the new Lucente-Williams-Allen front group regarding who will be our next vice mayor. “I don’t see it as a possibility,” would-be-mayor Tim Williams told The News Leader for a story published in this morning’s edition, regarding the talk…
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Column by Jim Bishop “I think it’s so groovy now That people are finally gettin’ together …” – Friend and Lover (1968 ) It comes down to this: people are people, wherever you go, whomever you meet. The majority of us walk upright, eat, sleep, pursue livelihoods, experience the gamut of human emotions and desire…
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Item by Jim Bishop The United States government has named restorative-justice expert Howard Zehr to be one of six members of a new Victims Advisory Group, a move that represents a major step toward addressing the needs of victims at the federal level. “I am pleased that U.S. Sentencing Commission has made this effort to…
