
The scars of child sex abuse
I’ve known Kris Losh for a long, long time. Feels like forever. The news headlines last week, that have Losh accused of sexual battery involving two children, were a gut punch, for multiple reasons.

I’ve known Kris Losh for a long, long time. Feels like forever. The news headlines last week, that have Losh accused of sexual battery involving two children, were a gut punch, for multiple reasons.

Happy Birthday America announced today that legendary basketball coach Paul Hatcher will be the Grand Marshall for the 4th of July parade in Staunton’s Gypsy Hill Park.

This week, the United Way of Greater Augusta completed the work required to reinvest over $200,000 raised in Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta Country back into agencies and programs.

Enjoy this excerpt from Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall, by Chris Graham and Patrick Hite, from the chapter on the final game played in University Hall, in 2006.

In celebration of National Volunteer Week, over 150 volunteers in the Greater Augusta region will complete projects with local nonprofit agencies and schools.

Arts Council of the Valley announces its February exhibition, Impressions: Monotypes by Patricia Hobbs, Feb 1-22 at Smith House Galleries, 311 South Main Street, Harrisonburg.

You don’t get out of the trailer park just giving up. It would be years before I’d realize that politics wasn’t for me.

Crystal and I launched Augusta Free Press in 2002, but actually, phrasing it that way makes it sound more planned than it was, which was, not really at all.

People had to know back in the ‘70s and ‘80s that cigarettes weren’t good for you, right?

I’ve won awards for investigative journalism. My first bit of investigative journalism dates to second grade.
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