Mac-knifed

Chris Graham

Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I can’t say anything bad about Mac. I know a lot of people who can. Does that list include the powers-that-be at UVa.? Have to wonder, don’tcha? “Representing Virginia Athletics and being the voice has been a true passion for me. I now have an…

Market adds festive touch to weekly shopping

Theresa Curry

Story by Theresa Curry AGratefulSeason.com New at the Waynesboro Farmers Market this week: music provided by Roger Merchant, activities for children and a new vendor, Roller’s Bakery, selling whole-grain breads, cookies, giant sticky buns and chocolate cake. Vendors from last week said sales were increasing, and a steady crowd moved between tables in the Waynesboro…

Getting to the bottom of the train accident that almost blew up Verona

Chris Graham

The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Ed Keenan once came within a few inches of blowing up half of Augusta County. He’s spent the past couple of years trying to figure out why. “When the train started out that day, the licensed engineer didn’t know he was supposed to be supervising me, I didn’t…

Tina Fey hatches hilarity in chick flick

Carl Larsen

Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen As a big fan of TV’s whacky “30 Rock,” I expected great things from Tina Fey in her leading lady debut, “Baby Mama,” now playing at the Staunton Mall Cinemas. I wasn’t disappointed. What last year’s over-ballyhooed “Knocked Up” could have been, “Baby Mama” is. And although…

The Senior Boom: Are we ready to expand services to increasingly aging population?

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It was hard enough getting Kitty Lough to go into an independent-living facility, harder still to get her to accept the change in her lifestyle. She never would have guessed back then that she’d miss it as much as she does now. “She’s finally gotten over the stage of saying,…

The Top Story: 25K to I-A?

Contributors

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A 25,000-seat stadium in I-AA football – sorry, but I refuse to go with that stupid new nomenclature that divides college football’s Division I into a Bowl Subdivision and a Championship Subdivision, and really, you should, too … Ahem. Sorry. I allowed myself to get off track there. What I…

Kingmaker

Chris Graham

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] “I’m the … king of England!” “No, you’re not.” My friend Eli was feeling full of himself. We’d started a neighborhood knothole gang of sorts back when we were kids, and kept it going over the years. Every year, we elect a new person-in-charge – you know,…