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Story by Chris Graham With AFP Video A campaign website to rival that of any statewide candidate. A ground operation that pledges to knock on thousands of doors and make as many phone calls. Lorie Smith is ready for May 2010. “I feel so strongly about the message that I carry, and I feel so…
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Story by Chris Graham Tim Williams is young for a city mayor at 43. But Williams, entering his second year as mayor of Waynesboro, has nine years of experience in city government under his belt dating back to his term on the Waynesboro School Board. That makes him the grizzled veteran of the young mayors…
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We’re a couple of hours away from our Big Mac Attack, and we have some good news to mark the occasion. The Waynesboro School Board didn’t bow to the pressure being applied by Vice Mayor Frank Lucente and his friends in the local media to cut its 2009-2010 budget $600,000 to accommodate Lucente’s push to…
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I didn’t know Louie Hausrath all that well. Actually, on second thought … I first knew his daughter, Beth, back when I was in the second grade at Crimora Elementary School. “I taught you how to write,” the woman whom I still feel compelled to think of and refer to as Miss Hausrath tells me…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Greater Augusta pediatrician Bob Gunther has been selected to participate in the 2008-2009 class of the Medical Society of Virginia Foundation’s Claude Moore Physician Leadership Institute.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I’ve never seen Tim Williams nervous. I mean, he sings in front of large crowds, he benchpresses 300 pounds in the gym, and the guy doesn’t flinch. I don’t know that he was terribly nervous today, except that the usually stoic and reserved Williams was working the room before the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Tom Reynolds can hear his dad’s voice today. “Dad used to tell me, Son, you have bigger fish to fry here. I’ve got a church that’s looking for a significant amount of leadership. They’ve been gentle with me as a part-time pastor, but as a full-time pastor, there’s going to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Waynesboro school system is among a growing number of school systems and city and county governments nationwide embracing a four-day work week. But the idea that has been floated in City Hall in Staunton is quickly becoming a “nonstory.” “I’m not even sure I’m recommending it anymore,” city manager…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It was a “difficult decision,” but in the end, Tom Reynolds knew what he had to do. “It’s an easy decision to make, but at the same time it’s a difficult decision to make,” said Reynolds, the mayor of Waynesboro for the last four years and a member of Waynesboro…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham If the much-talked-about industrial megasite in Augusta County is developed down the road, it is not just Augusta County that will be impacted by the addition of thousands of jobs to the regional economy and thousands more new residents to the regional housing market.
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