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“This is definitely no time,” said Stewart Hall of 891 Kent Road at Monday’s public hearing on the city tax rate, “to tighten the financial noose with further increases in taxes and fees.” Hall must have been speaking metaphorically, because his taxes and fees will be heading in opposite direction of an increase. According to…
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Fellow Valley Democrats are crowing about how the local GOP is a house divided, but in so doing are pointing out the splinter in the other guy’s eye while missing the log in their own. I say that because in my view the cause of the Democratic Party here is no more unified than what…
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The Waynesboro Circulator debuted Monday, bringing with it a new era of public transit to the River City. AFP editor Chris Graham met with city officials and representatives of Virginia Regional Transit to learn more about the new bus service. Watch his video report and read more about the Circulator in a written report.
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A public hearing on the city real-estate tax rate and a discussion of green initiatives highlight Monday night’s Waynesboro City Council meeting. The public hearing will give citizens the chance to offer input on the city’s real-estate tax rate for 2009-2010. The rate is currently at 70 cents per $100 assessed value. A coalition including…
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How about a quick hitter on home sales in the Greater Augusta region comparing sales prices in 2005 at the beginning of the period for the most recent reassessment in Augusta County to today at the end of the first quarter of 2009 when that reassessment was set into stone for the next four years?
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It’s real, Waynesboro. A multimillion-dollar development featuring a 12-screen cineplex in the West End is in the works, though there might be a hurdle or two from the city that will have to be overcome before they can butter the popcorn. The cineplex would be part of a mixed-use development that would include 40,000 square…
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Liam McNamara will continue his football career at Division III Washington and Jefferson. “It was a very difficult decision to make,” said McNamara, of Fishersville, an Eagle Scout and battalion executive officer at Fishburne Military School who will play wide receiver for the Presidents, who are coming off their sixth 11-win season in D3.
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Lowell Fulk was Al Weed. Gene Hart wants to be Tom Perriello. “Lowell Fulk’s runs in 2003 and 2005 laid the foundation for what we can do this year. We couldn’t be successful if Lowell hadn’t run and lost in 2003 and 2005,” said Hart, 46, a Harrisonburg attorney and presumptive Democratic Party nominee in…
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The sensation was like “pouring warm water starting from the top of my head all the way down to my toes on the left side.” And it scared Chris DeWald, but not the doctor who treated him initially.
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Story by Chris Graham Pete VandenBout admits to being a “little nervous” when he showed up to play baseball in Waynesboro a couple of years ago, not so much because of the baseball, but because he didn’t know the first thing about the family that was going to put him up for the summer. “Right…
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