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A chance to take home a beautifully-decorated Christmas tree and contribute to the efforts of AMC Hospice of the Shenandoah is on tap for Friday and Saturday at Fairfax Hall in Waynesboro. The first annual Festival of Trees will begin with a gala reception set for 6-10 p.m. Friday. The auction of Christmas trees decorated…
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Night of the Superstars VI brought professional wrestlers and fans together at Waynesboro High School Saturday night to raise money for the UVa. Children’s Hospital. Go inside the show with AFP editor Chris Graham to get a look at some of the hot and heavy action and talk with some of the superstars. Length: 2:09.
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The first AFP News documentary reports on the role that Democrats in Waynesboro, Staunton and Augusta County played in the historic election of Barack Obama in Tuesday’s presidential election. Produced by Chris Graham. Length: 9:10.
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“The Augusta Free Press Show” gets you ready for Night of the Superstars VI Saturday night at Waynesboro High School. AFP editor Chris Graham talks with “The Raging Bull” Manny Fernandez and former WWE star Colin Delaney. Length: 14:27.
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They didn’t call Manny Fernandez “The Raging Bull” because it sounded like good marketing. “The old-timers, they liked me, for some reason. OK, they liked me because I used to get into fights all the time in football,” said Fernandez, who will be wrestling Dylan Eaton on the card at Night of the Superstars VI…
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Column by Chris Graham “If I forget everything else when I get old and gray,” a friend told me Tuesday night, “I hope I never forget this feeling.” I understood completely what he was saying, because I had just had a similar thought myself. CNN and Fox News had just called the presidential race in…
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Op-ed by Linda Sloan and David May By the time you and your readers see this, our area will have helped to choose a new President-elect, Congressman-elect, and U.S. Senator-elect. After month upon month of hearing from others who we should vote for, we will have finally exercised our right to step up, vote, and,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States, in no small part due to Virginia, which voted for a Democrat for president for the first time in 44 years as it also elected a Democrat in Mark Warner to the United States Senate by a historic margin…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] He started his general-election campaign here in June after sewing up the Democratic Party nomination, and he’s going to end it here late Monday night. Still want to quibble over how seriously Barack Obama is taking Virginia? “What better way is there to showcase the importance of this state as…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I was working for an ultraconservative newspaper based in Charlottesville – not exactly the best place for somebody who would later become the chair of a Democratic Party committee to be, but it paid the bills. It also gave me a different perspective on Mark Warner, at first a skeptical…
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