Generals tap Palmer as new field manager

Chris Graham

Ronnie Palmer has built a winner in baseball at the community-college and now Division II college levels. It’s now Palmer’s task to rebuild the Waynesboro Generals after a season that saw the team miss the Valley League playoffs for the first time in three years. “The history of the Valley League goes without saying with…

More than a game

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham Sacco has left the building. Never thought I’d write those words. I thought we had him for life. Got him settled in Greenville, where the city boy from Chicago who used to take the subway to school could count the stars at night.

Hopewell puts his foot down

Chris Graham

Ben Hopewell isn’t even listed on the JMU roster, but the “kid from Waynesboro” has the attention of Dukes’ coach Mickey Matthews as Hopewell has landed in a battle for the starting placekicking job as a true freshman. “He’s really putting some pressure on Dixon. We like the guy. He’s really got a chance,” Matthews…

There’s always next year

Chris Graham

I was still trying to be hopeful Sunday night after the loss to the Covington Lumberbacks that put our Waynesboro Generals team on the brink of elimination from the 2009 Valley League playoff race. Team owner Jerry Carter, out of character, for those who know him, was the realist among us. “We’re still in this,”…

Meet the Generals

Chris Graham

Waynesboro Generals fans are invited to stay after the home game with Fauquier on Thursday night for a meet-and-greet with Generals players. Fans are invited to take photos and get autographs for 30 minutes after the game at Fishburne Military School Park at Kate Collins Field. Tables and chairs will be set up around the…

‘The secrecy thing’: Did ‘done deal’ appointment skirt law?

Chris Graham

Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008, 2:28 p.m. Waynesboro voter registrar Mary Alice Downs hits Send on an e-mail to Nelson County voter registrar Lisa Wooten. “I thought I would just touch base with you and see if you still have an interest in a move to Waynesboro? My Board is trying to plan for the upcoming…

The Generals are here!

Chris Graham

We have ourselves a ball team now. “Can’t do much without the players,” said Brian Lundstrom, in the fall, winter and spring a teacher at Kate Collins Middle School, and in the summer the public-address announcer for the Waynesboro Generals, who begin their 2009 season with an exhibition game Wednesday night against the Stuarts Draft…