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Staff Report The Roanoke-based Brass 5 will make the trek up I-81 Sunday for a concert at the Blue Ridge Community College Fine Arts Center. The 3 p.m. show will showcase the band’s repertoire that ranges from from Renaissance and classical to Dixieland, jazz, rock and country. Brass 5 been featured on local public radio…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Sen. Barack Obama will be in Richmond on Wednesday for a Change We Need rally at the Richmond Coliseum. The event is free and open to the public, though an RSVP is recommended. To RSVP, visit www.va.barackobama.com on the web. The event begins at 12:15 p.m. Doors to the Coliseum…
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Photos by Crystal Graham and Mark Miller Blue Mountain Sunrise warms up those in attendance for the Wayne Theatre groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday. Waynesboro Mayor Tim Williams addresses the assemblage. Waynesboro City Councilwoman Lorie Smith was on hand for the big day. Ginny Ross and John Curry unveil the under construction sign. Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The State Board of Elections voted today to ban clothing and hats and other campaign materials that directly advocate the election or defeat of a specific candidate or issue from polling places in Virginia. The American Civil Liberties Union had challenged a prohibition handed down last month by the State…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Not a day goes by that I don’t hear from an Obama-Biden supporter about the Wilder Effect – or what some folks call the Bradley Effect, the basics being a major-party candidate who is African-American whose support in pre- and post-election polling registers higher than actual performance in the polls….
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: McCain campaign loses a friend in John Lewis I was sitting in the press box at Scott Stadium on Saturday at halftime of the UVa.-ECU football game when I saw something in my e-mail in-box from the John McCain campaign that caught my attention. “Congressman John Lewis’ comments represent…
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Staff Report The following is a list of highway work projects that might affect traffic in the Staunton Transportation District during the coming weeks. Work scheduled is subject to change due to inclement weather and material supplies. Motorists are advised to watch for slow-moving tractors during mowing operations. Also, when traveling through a work zone,…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Twenty, twenty-five, close to thirty percent of students who start the ninth grade in the Shenandoah Valley aren’t graduating high school in four years, according to figures released by the State Department of Education on Wednesday. But are the numbers an accurate reflection of how many children are…
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Story by Jim Bishop Economic woes apparently took a back seat to spectacular weather that helped draw an enthusiastic crowd of nearly 10,000 to the 42nd annual Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale held Oct. 3-4 at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds. This year’s sale raised approximately $307,638 in total receipts for Mennonite Central Committee. This does not…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Dinah Gottschalk is a volunteer in the Waynesboro Democratic Committee. She’s a committed Democrat, a lifelong Democrat, and she’s been working hard this campaign season at the local Waynesboro Dems election headquarters in Willow Oak Plaza with me and dozens of other Waynesboro and Augusta County Democrats. She was, to…
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