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D.C. United Women open their inaugural United Soccer Leagues W-League season on Wednesday, when they travel to New Jersey to take on the New Jersey Wildcats at 7:30 p.m. at Lions’ Stadium on the campus of The College of New Jersey. United head coach Mike Jorden and his squad will attempt to earn their first-ever…
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One way to keep the growing United States-China global competition from descending into 20th century-style Cold War is to push cultural and economic connections – the likes of which are being forged between Waynesboro and its sister city Wanzhou, China, a bustling industrial city on the Yangtze River with a population of 1.7 million. Adding…
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An informal open forum meeting will be held on Monday, Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Waynesboro to provide information and education on the homeless situation in Waynesboro. Community leaders from the Waynesboro Police Department, Valley Mission, Social Services, and Salvation Army will be speaking and participating. There will also…
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Dr. H.B. Cavalcanti, a professor of sociology at James Madison University, has written a book about the United Church of Christ from the perspective of one of the smallest associations within the 1.2 million-member denomination. The United Church of Christ in the Shenandoah Valley: Liberal Church, Traditional Congregations, which was published in September, studies UCC…
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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…
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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…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] In its third annual ranking, Outdoor Life has ranked Waynesboro as one of the top towns in the United States for hunting and fishing. In the 2010 survey, Waynesboro was ranked number 200 and was the only Virginia town to be named on the survey. The City of Waynesboro has…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Greg Hitchin knows that the pressure is there to hit the ground running when he lands in Waynesboro. He also knows that he’s not going to be able to rebuild an economic-development office that went without somebody in the top job for 19 months in a day.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the City Council Chambers at the Charles T. Yancey Municipal Building, 503 W. Main St., Waynesboro.
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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…
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