County leaders share vision for future

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham  Candidates for the six of the seven seats on the Augusta County Board of Supervisors that are up for election on Nov. 4 took part in a candidates forum held at Verona Elementary School Thursday night. The forum, sponsored by the Augusta Community Partnership, focused on issues related to agriculture and…

A vision for the future

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham Waynesboro city leaders concluded their first-ever visioning session on Saturday with a clear direction of where they want to see the city go over the course of the next 20 years. The next step is to put what they spent the better part of three days talking about into a formalized…

Snack time

Chris Graham

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Us American fat-slob types are always getting together for lunch. Or dinner. Or breakfast. And then we eat like “Survivor” contestants moments after they’re allowed to eat something other than berries and rats for the first time in 40 days. Which is to say, like a pack of…

New breed of Democrat: Sisson comes out strong on taxes, spending

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham The rain greeted him at every stop on his whistlestop tour, but Steve Sisson was unfazed. The Elkton resident and former chairman of the Rockingham County Democratic Committee was touring the 24th Senate District on Saturday to announce his candidacy for the seat currently held by Sen. Emmett Hanger, R-Mount Solon….

Cruisin’

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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham “Refresh me again. So why is that we’re out here?” my friend Mordecai asked me the other day. The other evening, actually. We were out cruising. Whatever that is. I mean, you know what I’m talking about, right? Cruising? The fancy word for driving around for hours at…

My friend, Ralphus

Chris Graham

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham “I feel terrible,” I said, to no one in particular, except that Ralphus heard me. No matter. Because I did, you know, feel terrible. I had the flu, or so I thought. I mean, I probably did. I felt bad, and all. I had chills, and a fever…

Pitch man

Chris Graham

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham My agent, Harvey D. Shyster III, Esquire, called me up over the weekend to tell me about this great idea that he had. This is never good, I remember thinking at the time. He had an idea to help me through my short-term budget crunch, he said. The…

Don’t hate me because …

Chris Graham

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham “Not even close.” That was pretty much the answer I got when I called People to see why I hadn’t been included in the most recent edition of the magazine’s annual “50 Most Beautiful People” list. Again. I mean … Talk about snubs … “See, I noticed my…