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Op-Ed by Ellen Winter Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more The best show in town this week is Channel 14 from about 9:10-9:40 p.m. See your city government in action. Unfortunately, it is a reality show not fiction — even though some of it is unbelievable.
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The Politics Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] One guy gets more votes, the other guy has friends in high places, and you can guess who wins. I could be talking about George Bush, Florida, the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000, but I’m not. I’m talking about the Augusta County Republican Committee, which elected Larry…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Silence. Absolute silence. That’s what we’ve gotten from Bruce Allen regarding the effective firing of city manager Doug Walker that he helped engineer. The official word, according to a News Leader reporter with whom I spoke Thursday, is that Allen is out of town, and…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] It would seem to buttress the case of the ultraconservatives that the average tenure of a city manager was five and a half years according to the International City/County Management Association, given that Doug Walker will be finishing up five and a half years in…
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Item by Crystal Graham [email protected] It’s not your everyday banjo. With musical instruments being cranked out of big factories every day, Geoff Stelling’s handmade banjos are a true rarity. The Afton-based business produces just 200 or so banjos annually. Geoff’s son, Jimmy, who works with his dad in the business, is a banjo player who…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] This ought to get people to think spiritually … Free $10 gas cards will be given to the first 100 cars to drop by the Waynesboro Seventh-day Adventist Church at 1700 Lyndhurst Road today at 5:30 p.m. The gas cards will be good at Hess gas stations in the area.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] How about the sudden about-face of our would-be mayor? “I don’t see any need to air out our discrepancies and our differences. Kind of give Mr. Walker respect,” Tim Williams said in a voicemail message to the News Leader that was reported in that paper’s…
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The Local Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] Interesting lunch date for me today with a city official in Staunton, from whom I learned that the recent Staunton City Council elections were similar to the ones in Waynesboro that I was involved in, with one difference. The difference – the progressive candidates in Staunton found…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] The man who would be mayor slinked out of the city-council chambers quietly through a back door. He didn’t want to face the group of close to 50 people who had just given the man that he had asked three weeks ago to submit his…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The new ultraconservative majority on Waynesboro City Council hasn’t been seated yet, but it is already effectively in charge down at City Hall. Backroom maneuvering instigated by city-council members Frank Lucente and Tim Williams and Councilman-elect Bruce Allen has pushed city manager Doug Walker to step down from his post…
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