These routes are made for walkin’
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Everybody knows Sophie. That, and it’s not as long a walk from the 500 block of Chestnut to Berkeley Glenn as I’d thought it might be.
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Team Coverage | They fixed the downtown stoplight
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AFP editor Chris Graham has been on City Hall to do something about the maddening stoplight at the intersection of Main and Wayne in Downtown Waynesboro. Good news – they’ve finally done something! Graham covers the story with a video interview of assistant city manager Jim Shaw and a written report including perspectives from several…
Local Democratic Party News and Notes
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Grassroots training postponed A grassroots training program for Valley Democrats that had been scheduled for Saturday, May 9, in Harrisonburg has been postponed. The program will be rescheduled for a future date, Democratic Party of Virginia political director Don Marks said today.
In the News
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– Local News: Left eastbound I-64 lane on Afton Mountain to close for cleanup, posted Monday, 2:45 p.m. – Chris Graham on Facebook: Sports and religion – Local News: I-64 clear after early-morning accident on Afton Mountain, posted Monday, 9:15 a.m. – Event: MHA-A golf tournament on tap, posted Monday, 9:15 a.m. – Local News:…
Their dirty work done for them
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Is that reputation repair work that my friends at the News Virginian are doing for Vice Mayor Frank Lucente and City Councilman Bruce Allen on their op-ed page? “Officials like (Lucente) and Allen, who are willing to plunge into the books looking for savings, are rare to the point of vanishing. Government needs more leaders…
Big Mac and Beyond
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We didn’t cause a traffic jam downtown. No mass crowd chanting three-word slogans in the direction of the City Council chambers. We had to wait to 12:05 to get our seventh person. But the Big Mac Attack was meaningful nonetheless, and I think the start of something bigger.
DCCU reports growth in loans in first quarter
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The Waynesboro-based DuPont Community Credit Union reported a 4.01 percent increase in total loans outstanding over the previous quarter and a 13.88 percent increase over first quarter 2008. This brings the amount of total loans to $539 million as of the end of the first quarter. This includes $45.8 million in real-estate loans funded during the first quarter.
A Big Mac, a Whopper, a BLT …
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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…
In the News
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– Local News: Swine flu cases confirmed in Lexington, posted Saturday, 9:30 a.m. – Event: Art collection will help create healing environment, posted Saturday, 9:30 a.m. – Local News: DCCU announces scholarship winners, posted Saturday, 9:30 a.m. – Capitol Hill: Perriello-sponsored protections for consumers facing excessive credit fees pass House, posted Friday, 9:10 a.m. –…
Trying to reason the Museum money crunch
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As a show-me-the-money business guy, I’m having a hard time on the issue involving funding for the Waynesboro Heritage Foundation, because this one isn’t one where you’re going to get a lot tangible out of return-on-investment analysis. Vice Mayor Frank Lucente is rarely right, but he is on a key point on this – that…
