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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…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m trying to piece together what News Virginian reporter Jimmy LaRoue was trying to do in his story this morning about a real-estate connection between outgoing city manager Doug Walker and local real-estate developer Bill Hausrath.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] It was more a gesture than anything else. But Sam Rasoul was out there on the front lines of the gas crisis just the same. “The point of this event was to raise awareness about the energy crisis in this country,” said Rasoul, the Democratic Party nominee in the Sixth…
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The Local Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] The Republican Party is going to miss Kurt Michael – big time. Michael affirmed in a blog posting at sixtyfour81.com on Tuesday that he will step down from the position of chair of the GOP committee in Augusta County as he had promised back in April. He…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] You can take the Hatfield out of the Hatfield-McCoy feudin’, but you can’t take the feudin’ out of the Hatfield. “It’s a disservice to those who have given their lives,” Reo Hatfield told News Virginian reporter Bob Stuart for a story in today’s paper ostensibly…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] The rumors that have Jerry Gwaltney as the next city manager in Waynesboro interest me in one key respect. The city council that he is leaving behind on June 30 thinks that a key reason for him doing so has to do with a squabble…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Do you have a favorable view of how the new city-council majority handled the departure of Doug Walker? The top person in local government is sacked in the middle of the night, right there in front of everybody’s disbelieving eyes. He is replaced by a personal friend…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Well, what did you expect? Something brand new or different from the Indiana Jones franchise that we all grew up with? No such turn of events, my friends, and what we have in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls” is, happily, a stroll through…
