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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s a cold, hard reality. Waynesboro, like most other communities in the Commonwealth and across the country, is facing pretty severe budget shortfalls, both in the near term and into next year. Policy moves at the local and state level aren’t making things any easier. We’ll start in City…
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– Waynesboro City Council meeting agenda – Staunton City Council meeting agenda – Supreme Court to hear UVa. Law School case Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro City Council meeting agenda: Waynesboro City Council will hold a business meeting Monday at 7 p.m. at the Charles T. Yancey Municipal Building, 503 W. Main St., Waynesboro….
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Column by David Cox Columns, letters: [email protected] One week ago, Western State Hospital in Staunton broke ground for a brand-new facility. Gov. Kaine was there – and much emphasis was placed on the importance of mental-health facilities in the Commonwealth of Virginia…even as a cloud hangs over the whole enterprise. If you’ve not been there,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The angel came to Mary Martin not in a vision, but on the phone. “We’re putting an addition on the back of your house, and you can’t say no,” the angel told Mary, mother of Joseph, in our modern-day retelling of the Christmas story an active Waynesboro 12-year-old who…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Michael Harris announced yesterday that he will be challenging incumbent Ward D Waynesboro City Councilwoman Lorie Smith in the May 2010 city elections. Harris, 62, made the announcement in front of a group of supporters in the Waynesboro City Council chambers Wednesday morning.
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Pol to head up education transition Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Chris Saxman’s career in the House of Delegates is winding down. Could a new avenue be opening up with a possible job in the McDonnell administration? “Obviously that’s natural speculation,” said Saxman, who this week confirmed that he is co-chairing the Bob McDonnell transition…
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Plan includes sale of property, renewed fundraising efforts Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Rumors were swirling among students at Stuart Hall for weeks that the 165-year-old Staunton private school might not even make it to the second semester of the 2009-2010 school year due to a run of budget issues related to the ongoing economic…
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Staff Report The parent organization to Stuart Hall in Staunton has endorsed a plan for long-term sustainability developed by the private school’s Board of Governors in the face of economic challenges faced by the school in the continuing economic downturn. “We recognize that the critical keys to our sustainability are recruitment of new students, retention…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s 9:30. Make that 9:32, actually. The staff is already gathered round the small table in front of the whiteboard near the entrance to the newsroom. Ed Reams wants to know what the WHSV-TV3 news team has, and the answer is – plenty. It’s the morning of the United…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Bureau chief is a sexy job title, but being the bureau chief means you end up doing things like spending the morning at a middle school making sure the station can do live web-streaming of a House of Delegates debate scheduled for the next night. WVIR-NBC29 veteran Ken Slack…
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