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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] All I wanted to be able to do, I told myself throughout my 2008 campaign for Waynesboro City Council, was to think at 7 p.m. on Election Night that I’d done everything I could do to put myself in a position to be able to win. Win or lose,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The search for a new economic-development director in Waynesboro that had dragged on for 19 months is over. City Manager Mike Hamp announced in a press release Thursday morning that Greg Hitchin, currently the business development manager in Onondaga County in New York, has taken the job effective April…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello is facing a full-court press from the Republicans gunning for the chance to knock him off in November. The press might work better if the GOP’ers weren’t trying at the same time to steal the ball from each other. “My opponent Jim McKelvey put…
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Column by Del. Ken Plum www.kenplum.com Last week I took the extraordinary step of making a motion on the floor of the House of Delegates that a bill be discharged from a committee. The rules provide for such a motion, but it is seldom made and almost never approved. Had my motion been approved,…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro City Councilwoman Lorie Smith is hosting a Tourism Summit tonight at 6 p.m. at the Charles T. Yancey Municipal Building. The summit is bringing together local leaders and residents to begin work toward developing a plan to promote Waynesboro as a tourist destination. The meeting is open to…
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Hosted by Chris Graham [email protected] We’re trying something new tonight – a live blog using Twitter and Facebook. I will be live at Veterans Memorial Park on the campus of JMU for tonight’s baseball game between the Dukes and #1 UVa. The first pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. Follow us live on Twitter…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] If you’re a rock-ribbed conservative, you would probably already think that WSVA needs to rein in that liberal kook Andy Schmookler. Well, that liberal kook Andy Schmookler that you know and have come to loathe was Andy Schmookler playing nice.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You might find out what a tomato is actually supposed to taste like. That’s one advantage to community supported agriculture. “It’s picked fresh that day, so you end up with an incredibly fresh selection of vegetables that have not been treated with Clorox to preserve them,” said David Beebe,…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Congratulations are in order to Phil and Ellen Winter, whose persistence in their search for information about the workings of the city treasurer office in Waynesboro led to their collection of dozens of pages of e-mails, memos and audit reports, an investigative report in The New Dominion Magazine, more…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] – Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq – Wintering into Wisdom – Energy Restructure: Set Yourself Free Using the 9 Layers of the Emotional Body Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq The first case that pediatric surgeon Christopher Coppola, a guest on the March 4 AFP Show, saw on…
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