City addresses finance issues
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro City Council is adding a third member to its Finance Committee, while effectively making the committee’s work the work of the entire council.
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Winners and Losers: July 7, 2008
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: Tim Kaine for VP? The Last Virginian Standing in the Democratic Party VP race is the one that I found most logical from the get-go. Barack Obama could use a Southern governor to balance his ticket. And remember, Kaine was on the Obama train early on, early enough, as…
Bang for our stormwater bucks
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Should stormwater improvements be a higher priority in Waynesboro? Waynesboro was looking at spending $1.2 million this year to get its long-awaited and long-debated stormwater-improvement project up and running, but that was before the new vice mayor, Frank Lucente, switched positions on the source of funding for…
Three, two
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] A question has arisen regarding the makeup of the Finance Committee appointed by Mayor Tim Williams last week at city council’s reorganization meeting. The question – doesn’t the committee appointed by Williams, consisting of Williams and Vice Mayor Frank Lucente, need to have one more…
Local attorneys honored for pro-bono work
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Augusta County Bar Association honored two local attorneys for their pro-bono work at the association’s annual meeting last month. The attorneys honored were Jeffrey A. Ward, a member of the the Waynesboro-based law firm Franklin, Denney, Ward & Lawson, and K. Wayne Glass, a member of the Staunton-based law…
Local Rotarian installed as district governor
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro Rotarian Tracy Aitcheson was installed as district governor for District 7570 in a ceremony held last week at the Waynesboro Country Club. Aitcheson is a 19-year member of the Waynesboro Rotary Club. Aitcheson, 71, is a University of Richmond grad and former dentist who raises purebred Angus cattle on…
Celebration of chili
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. is looking for a few good chili chefs. Chili chefs from across the Valley and Central Virginia are invited to take part in the second annual Chili, Blues ‘N Brews Cook-off sponsored by WDDI. The Cook-off is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 6, from 11 a.m. to…
Winners and Losers: July 3, 2008
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: AFP announces expansion Guess we couldn’t let the first full day of our seventh year of operations go without adding more fun to our plates. Beginning in January, our flagship print publication, The New Dominion Magazine, will be published monthly. “Response to the magazine the past year and a…
Backs against the wall
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Finally, the new majority answers my criticism of the decision to close the bulk-refuse collection center. And go figure, it includes a slur aimed at the dreaded Wayne Theatre. “It all boils down to this. The money was there, but we made the wrong decisions,”…
Winners and Losers: July 2, 2008
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: Starbucks closing 600 stores, but we don’t know which ones I have an e-mail out to the Starbucks press office to find out about the Staunton and Waynesboro locations. Nothing back from them yet, and the only thing I can find on the company website is a note from…
