Susan Shaer: Partisan politics should not get in the way of new START

AFP

The partisan split in politics is getting old and stale. Real people want real solutions to real issues, and one of the gravest is within our grasp to solve. For decades, we have been under a nuclear cloud, but world and U.S. leaders have risen to the occasion to provide safeguards. The United States and…

A new year under way at Fishburne

Chris Graham

Fishburne Military School has changed Brian Watkins. “This school works wonders. It really changed me. It changed the way I act, respect, my discipline,” said Watkins, a senior and the new battalion commander, at a ceremony Tuesday marking the first formation of the corps of cadets for the 2010-2011 school year. Watkins, a Fairfax Station…

Moving Waynesboro Forward: Two years later

Chris Graham

Written by Chris Graham [email protected]   “Chris Graham is the choice.” I don’t remember the exact wording. I do remember reading the headline that said this or something pretty close out loud and thinking, This is it! “What?” My wife, Crystal, was incredulous. She could sense it, too. Skimming through the endorsement editorial in the…

Jim Gilmore: Financial catastrophe for the United States

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Column by Jim Gilmore Submit guest columns: [email protected]   The passage of the health care bill continues to dig the American public deeper into a financial hole. No matter how it is characterized, this is a vast new entitlement program, with no limits on the cost to the taxpayers of the future. Today our economic…

Waynesboro Players hold auditions for Willy Wonka

Chris Graham

   Staff Report News tips: [email protected] Do you love singing, candy, and getting wrapped up in a great story? Then Roald Dahl’s “Willy Wonka” musical auditions are for you! The Waynesboro Players in partnership with Imagine That! Theatre is producing this much-loved tale of the world-famous candy man on a quest to find a young…

AFP Focus | Theater project moves forward in big way

Chris Graham

Waynesboro hasn’t had a night at the movies since the Wayne Theater closed a decade ago. It seems an interesting locale to start a digital-movie revolution. “We’ll have more digital screens than anybody else I’ve been able to find in Virginia. We will be the only all-digital theater that I’ve been able to find in…

United Daughters of the Confederacy convention in Staunton next week

Chris Graham

The Shenandoah Valley, once the scene of many battles during the War Between the States, will be the site of the 114th annual Virginia Division Convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Convention attendees of the statewide organization of more than 2,000 members will gather at Staunton’s Stonewall Jackson Hotel on Oct. 1-4, 2009….