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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] The big question after the May elections for Waynesboro City Council – one of the big questions, anyway – had to do with the future of the Wayne Theatre Alliance. I was among those who assumed that the Alliance and its planned $7 million renovation of the Wayne Theatre would…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Wayne Theatre Alliance is moving ahead with the planned renovation of the historic 82-year-old Downtown Waynesboro landmark even as its political future remains up in the air. “This is a great day for Waynesboro! It has been a long, but rewarding journey. We thank all those in the community…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Blues Lady and a Martian Christmas story will debut at the September installment of “The River City Radio Hour” in Waynesboro next week. The Sept. 19 edition of the “Radio Hour” will take place at the Blue Ridge Christian Fellowship hall at 329 W. Main St. in Downtown Waynesboro….
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] How’s this for a juxtaposition? Wayne Theatre Alliance chairman Bill Hausrath calls himself “an eternal optimist,” while I’m an preternaturally-pessimistic political realist. But while Hausrath is wondering aloud if the Wayne project can survive without already-promised city funding coming as expected, I think it can, or rather, that…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Want to know what the Wayne Theatre will look like when the redevelopment project is all said and done? You can now take a virtual tour of the Wayne. Click on the YouTube link below, or go to the Wayne Theatre Alliance website at www.waynetheatre.org to take the tour.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] You won’t be in Kentucky, but otherwise you’ll feel like you’re at the Derby. “It will be a mix of high times and old town,” said Phyllis Pendergraft, one of the organizers of Horses and Hats, a Kentucky Derby party being sponsored by the Wayne Theatre Alliance in Waynesboro on…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] News Leader columnist and cookbook author Mollie Bryan will lead a Waynesboro Cultural Commission-sponsored workshop on “Writing Memoirs, Essays and Columns” on Saturday at Stone Soup Books in Downtown Waynesboro. Bryan is the author of Mrs. Rowe’s Restaurant Cookbook: A Lifetime of Recipes from the Shenandoah Valley. Her essays have…
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Item by Chris Graham The Third Fridays concert series in Downtown Waynesboro is back this coming Friday night with a performance by Molimo. The acoustic-rock band is made up of members Jim McAvoy, Kevin Crowe, RW Smith and Tom Serrano. The concert will be held in the former Radio Shack building in Willow Oak Plaza…
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Story by Chris Graham Funding for the Wayne Theatre renovation project in Downtown Waynesboro has passed the House of Representatives. Sixth District Congressman Bob Goodlatte had the measure appropriating $300,000 for the Wayne renovation included in the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act for fiscal-year 2008. The appropriations act passed the House on…
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Column by Chris Graham The Wayne Theatre issue is all over but for the cryin’ – which promises to go on for some time despite the apparent resolution of the debate over whether or not the city should partner with the Wayne Theatre Alliance in a public-private project to turn the 81-year-old theatre building into…
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