Community Mourning: Waynesboro loses local arts icon

Chris Graham

The Waynesboro arts community is in mourning today over the sudden passing of artist, dramatist, author and retired Waynesboro High School teacher Duane Hahn. “Duane … how can we imagine creative Waynesboro without you? I’m heartbroken,” wrote author and friend Elizabeth Massie on a Facebook post Thursday morning. Hahn was an icon to the local…

Players put on ‘Nuncrackers’

Contributors

The Waynesboro Players open a four-show production of the local favorite “Nuncrackers” Thursday night at Kate Collins Middle School. Showtimes are 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Purchase tickets. The production is directed by Duane Hahn and stars Barbara Spilman Lawson, Sandi Belcher, Janie Ballurio, Dianne Wade Truslow and Bob Wright.

Tonight’s Waynesboro Generals game postponed

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected]   The Waynesboro Generals-Luray Wranglers game scheduled for Friday night has been postponed to Monday night. The postponement is the result of several Luray players being ill. The game will be played at Mathers Park at Kate Collins Field at 7 p.m. Monday. Free tickets given out as part of…

Players bring Willy Wonka to stage

Chris Graham

Story, Photos and Video by Chris Graham [email protected]   Charlie ends up with one of the tickets to take a tour of the famed Willy Wonka chocolate factory, and the experience promises to change his life.. Playing Charlie in the upcoming Waynesboro Players’ production of Willy Wonka is changing the approach for young actor Aaron Crosby. “Usually…

Goodnight, Grace: Walkers bring Players production to life

Contributors

Column by Chris Graham [email protected]    Alex is a telephone repairman on a late-night call. Grace is an aging-before-her-time twentysomething on the prowl in her own apartment. Grace thinks Alex is, well, a prowler. She saw him climbing in her window, after all. Alex doesn’t mind that she thinks what she thinks. He thinks it…

A new day for the Waynesboro Generals

Chris Graham

Critzer, Gauldin step forward to save Valley League team Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The uncertain future of the Waynesboro Generals was a hot topic of conversation for a lot of baseball fans in and around Waynesboro the past several weeks. Among those talking around the proverbial hot stove were a pair of Waynesboro-based businessmen…