Beware the sticker patrol, part two

Chris Graham

The Waynesboro Police Department wants you to remember, Don’t shoot the messenger. “The Waynesboro Police Department would like to remind city residents that 46.2-1052 of the Code of Virginia makes it unlawful to have any unauthorized sticker affixed to the windshield of a motor vehicle being operated on a highway. Recently abolished and currently expired…

Targeted tax relief for the unemployed

Chris Graham

I noticed that Waynesboro City Council has added to its agenda for its staff briefing tonight an item to discuss tax relief for the elderly and disabled. I’ve been talking up behind the scenes an idea springing from that senior-focused tax-relief effort that I think could gain some traction given the economic times. And the…

Baseball braggin’ rights on the line

Chris Graham

The Waynesboro Generals begin regular-season Valley League play two weeks from Friday night. But the Generals will take to the field two nights earlier to fight for some Greater Augusta braggin’ rights. The Generals will play host to the Stuarts Draft Diamondbacks of the Rockingham County Baseball League Wednesday, June 3, at 7 p.m. at…

In the News

Chris Graham

– Health News: VCU doc working on innovative treatment for brain aneurysms – Local News: Water quality in South River focus of DEQ meeting in Waynesboro – Local News: Berkeley Glenn student wins three-month free pass to Waynesboro YMCA 

A better place to live

Chris Graham

Our friends at the Waynesboro Taxpayer Alliance are out there once again trying to rouse a backbreaking tax increase out of the mixed bag that was the 2009 property reassessment in Waynesboro. Mike Harris, who you might remember as the 830 S. Ellison Lane homeowner whose property assessment and taxes are actually decreasing as a…