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,…

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,…

County Republicans to decide future this week

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] This has been coming for some time. You could say dating back to the walkup to the 2007 Republican Party primary that saw Scott Sayre challenge Emmett Hanger for the 24th District GOP nomination, though I think it was significantly before that. The discord between Hanger, who held off Sayre’s…

Richardson drops out, Rasoul now presumptive Sixth District Dem nominee

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I surely didn’t see it coming. “I am suspending my campaign for the Democratic nomination effective immediately,” Sixth District Democratic congressional candidate Drew Richardson said in a statement today that ended his run at the party nomination. “I congratulate the presumptive nominee, Mr. Rasoul, and wish him and his supporters…