Police looking for shooters in I-64 incidents

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia State Police are looking for multiple suspects in connection with a series of shootings on a stretch of Interstate 64 in Western Albemarle County that sent two people to the hospital. “We believe it’s more than one suspect. Now, that doesn’t mean that they were firing simultaneously at these…

Citizens groups join suit to block I-81 widening

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The New Jersey Turnpike in the Shenandoah Valley. That’s what critics of the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Interstate 81 widening plan envision happening if the engineers get their wishes. “For us, our mission is to protect farms, forests, open spaces and cultural heritage – and this is impacting all of…

The return of Winners and Losers …

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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: Waynesboro about to lose its mayor Tom Reynolds announced his retirement effective June 30 from Waynesboro City Council. Reynolds was instrumental in having the city council think long-range – to his own detriment, if you judge the controversy that foes of his forward thinking raised in…

I-81 plans: A cautionary tale for all Virginians

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Op-Ed by Kim Sandum Just before Christmas, some of the people I work with sued the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration over plans to expand I-81. It needed to be done. The story of I-81 is a cautionary tale for the rest of Virginia about a state agency that too often…

Groups file suit to block 81 widening

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A lawsuit is not a great option when your goal is to get government to reconsider what it’s doing relative to a road project. But the group that filed suit in federal court in Charlottesville on Monday to block further movement toward a massive reconstruction of Interstate 81 in Western…

I-81, taxpayer-funded ambulance rides, UVa. research

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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] PUSH: VDOT and I-81 I dunno – seems to me that when citizens groups are resorting to filing lawsuits to try to block something that a government agency is doing, they must be feeling that the political process isn’t working the way they want it to. |That’s…