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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s hard to get a handle on how $4-a-gallon gas is affecting attendance at Valley League games this summer. I’ve scanned the box scores to try to get some feel, but the best I can say at this point is that the jury is still…
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Dull Ache column by W.R. Marshall adullache.today.com With the primaries finally over – although it hasn’t really sunk I still wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, thinking it’s 2037 and hearing Hillary say “If I win in Guam, they’ll have to give me the nomination” – it’s on to…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I really want to be giggles happy about the news from last night’s city-council meeting that has city council discussing hiring a search firm to hire a new city manager. Really, I do. The talk behind the scenes in the walkup to and the aftermath…
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Column by Todd Haymore The official name of the agency I lead is the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, also called VDACS. Agriculture is listed first in our name, but the consumer services section is by no means an afterthought. At VDACS, we take our obligation to consumers very seriously.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] One way to look at Lofton Lake is to view it as a million-dollar retreat owned by some of the area’s most prominent figures. Another would be to look at it for what it is – an old campground that a group of mostly low-profile…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Does Augusta County need an economic-development department? It amazes me that Augusta County government has been able to get along as long as it has without an economic-development department to build on what the county has at its economic disposal for the future. OK, so yeah, I…
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Item by Jim Bishop Every parent’s worst nightmare is to have a child abducted. In Uganda, that may mean knowing your child is being forced to perform atrocities or being used as a sex slave. This was the reality for Angelina Atyam for seven years. Last week, Atyam told her powerful story of hate and…
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Letter from Kathy Belcher Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more Although as a Staunton resident I have no dog in the current Waynesboro city officials’ dog fight, I do however have an interest in assuring that the press and public have an accurate accounting of Doug Walker’s purchase of a Lofton Lake share.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] John Lawrence has a story to tell about the events that led to the effective firing of city manager Doug Walker, and I’m not the first person he’s told it to. By Lawrence’s account, I’m the third journalist to get the details of the meeting…
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Column by Scott Suggs June is normally what we consider a transition month for bass. This is in reference to the movement of bass from their spawning flats to their deepwater summer hangouts. Knowing that these often big groups of bass are heading towards deeper water and what areas and bait to key on can…
