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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] I would say everything went according to script at this morning’s reorganization meeting of Waynesboro City Council. Tim Williams is mayor, as Frank Lucente told me six weeks ago would be the case. Lucente, meanwhile, is vice mayor, Mike Hamp is the interim city manager, and John Kiger is still…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Tim Williams was unanimously elected mayor, but the vote for vice mayor was the first in what we can assume will be a series of 3-2 votes from the new Waynesboro City Council. Frank Lucente was elected vice mayor in a party-line vote. Lorie Smith was defeated in her bid…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] “Wait and see.” That sums things up rather nicely. I’ve been spending a good deal of time the past few days talking with city-council members, department heads and line employees in City Hall to try to gauge opinion about what life is going to be like when the new…
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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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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Bad political move on the part of the new Lucente-Williams-Allen front group regarding who will be our next vice mayor. “I don’t see it as a possibility,” would-be-mayor Tim Williams told The News Leader for a story published in this morning’s edition, regarding the talk…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Nice, provocative lede to the “Can’t just blame it on the rain” story on Day One of The News Virginian’s Stormwater Strain series. “Trash, cigarette butts, oil and antifreeze assault Waynesboro’s stormwater system,” writes the NV’s Jimmy LaRoue, making us think that these are the…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m sensing more fear than loathing regarding the upcoming News Virginian special report on stormwater issues. I’ve been getting e-mails the past couple of days from residents who assume that the NV is going to take a partisan rather than evenhanded approach to reporting on…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When times are tight, and really, when are they not tight, when you’re talking from a local-government perspective, you have to be creative. “The $2 million figure is based on a 2005 study that is now dated. Construction costs have gone up pretty significantly since that study was done. We…
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Fear and Loathing column by Chris Graham [email protected] This politics stuff isn’t just fun and games. We can forget that sometimes. I was jolted back into that reality yesterday when I saw fire trucks from the Preston L. Yancey Fire Department and Augusta County Fire Department speed past my office/house on their way downtown. “This…
