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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Samantha Casey wanted to put what she’s been learning as a business and marketing major at William & Mary to use for the good of the nonprofit that she came across a couple of years ago that creates safe havens for children rescued from the sex-trafficking trade. The new…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Plenty of enthusiasm, with a couple of doses of reality. That was the downtown visioning session held in a packed City Council chambers in Waynesboro Thursday night. The packed chambers were a sign of the enthusiasm. Sixty-seven people took part in the two-hour-plus session, which had participants breaking up…
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Staff Report UVa. sports: www.virginiasports.com Virginia head football coach Mike London has announced four additions to his coaching staff. London has retained current assistant coach Anthony Poindexter, while adding Vincent Brown, Jeff Hanson and Mike Faragalli, who all coached with him at Richmond. London will announce specific position assignments at a future date. “All…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia’s two United States senators, within hours of each other earlier this week, were headlining efforts in the Senate aimed at impacting the health-care reform whirlwind winding up on Capitol Hill this December. Mark Warner was first out of the gate on Tuesday with the coalition of moderate Democrats…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Another study in Waynesboro – like we need one of those. But maybe we do. We haven’t followed the advice of any of the other studies, but eventually we have to get one right, right? We can hope as much as we head into tonight’s downtown visioning session –…
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Video Essay by Chris Graham [email protected] The idea to reconfigure elementary education in Waynesboro isn’t a bad one on its face, but … What’s the big rush? Shouldn’t we take our time and make sure that we’re doing the right thing? The push has some people wondering aloud about what the real motivation might…
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Column by David Cox Columns, letters: [email protected] One week ago, Western State Hospital in Staunton broke ground for a brand-new facility. Gov. Kaine was there – and much emphasis was placed on the importance of mental-health facilities in the Commonwealth of Virginia…even as a cloud hangs over the whole enterprise. If you’ve not been there,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] With AFP Audio Tom Perriello picked a great time to be a freshman congressman, what with the country in January on the verge of the next Great Depression and with so much unresolved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the push from the electorate in the ’08…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The only thing Kat Carr was missing – “a bullhorn.” “Otherwise, yeah, I’d say it was kind of like the TV show,” said Carr, one of 25 Waynesboro Home Depot store employees that spent most of their days on Tuesday volunteering their time on the Rebuilding Together project at…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Ric Flair, Ricky Steamboat, Blackjack Mulligan, every month, right there at Augusta Expoland. The glory days of Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling from the ’70s and ’80s are long gone. Local promoter Brian Reger is looking to build new memories for today’s professional-wrestling fans. “Augusta Expoland is so rich in history…
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