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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov. Tim Kaine on Monday announced that the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture has designated 11 Virginia counties primary natural-disaster areas due to the spring and summer drought, including on that list Nelson County, and that 24 contiguous counties including Rockbridge and Augusta had also received contiguous disaster status, making farmers…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So I’m telling Tim Gorman how bad I feel for him that he can’t take his two skateboarding children anywhere in Nelson County to engage in their sport of choice. And then he incriminates himself. “Actually, Chris, I take my kids to Waynesboro to skate,” said Gorman, the man behing…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s not a new idea, not even in Waynesboro, not even from Vice Mayor Frank Lucente, who first broached the subject of spinning economic-development activities out from under the direct purview of Waynesboro City Council in 2005. “They can do a lot of things that the city council…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Money is a sign of strength in a political strength. Tom Perriello’s congressional bid continues to show fiscal strength. The Fifth District Democratic Party nominee raised more than $300,000 in the second fundraising quarter of 2008 and has raised more than $900,000 all told, the campaign announced on Tuesday.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A 1907 murder trial in Nelson County is the setting of a new play by Faber playwright Peter Coy that will open at the Hamner Theater in Nellysford on May 23. A Shadow of Honor is inspired by the true events of the William Loving murder trial. Waynesboro resident Jonas…
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Theresa Curry AGratefulSeason.com That’s what Amy Childs said about the Waynesboro Farmers Market, reappearing at the Downtown Waynesboro Pavilion after several years’ absence. She was right. It was easy to envision a meal made entirely from the homegrown products on display at the market’s rebirth: farm-raised chickens and pork, homemade breads, homegrown grains, asparagus and watercress…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So you want to go green, and you’ve taken some steps by improving energy efficiency around the home and office, cutting unnecessary travel and the rest. But you feel like you can do more. “I think most Americans are looking at the sort of things that they do, and a…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham LOSER: Bob Goodlatte not seeking Senate nomination Talk had been out there for years that Goodlatte might be interested in succeeding John Warner when the senator stepped down – and that talk intensified when Warner put the Sixth District congressman’s name on a short list of people he…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham LOSER: Mohawk Industries Nice PR department they must have there. The Georgia company first tells The News Virginian that it was not going to be laying off employees at its Waynesboro plant as part of a companywide restructuring, then goes ahead and lays off employees at its Waynesboro…
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Story by Chris Graham All politics is local – but to Connie Brennan, it is also true that all Virginia politics emanates out of Richmond. “I think being on the board of supervisors was sort of a catalyzing event for me – because I now see that everything that happens in Richmond profoundly affects us…
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