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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…
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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,”…
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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…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] An AFP reader raised a good point in a comment today on our team coverage of yesterday’s city-council reorganization. “Bruce Allen’s comment in the News Virginian about Mr. Walker’s firing … ‘some issues were personnel issues,’ bothers some of us. … How would Mr. Allen…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A $3,000 grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts will help the show go on at “The River City Radio Hour.” The grant announcement was made June 20. The commission praised director Clair Myers, also the executive director of the Wayne Theatre Alliance, for the “Radio Hour”‘s use of…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Blair and Kristin Cormier will provide musical entertainment at today’s Waynesboro Farmers’ Market. The Cormiers will perform live from 4-6 p.m. at the Farmers’ Market in The Pavilion in Downtown Waynesboro. The market is open from 3-7 p.m.
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSERS: Those of us overreacting to Wes Clark Look, the guy was wounded in Vietnam himself, OK? Stop calling him unpatriotic. It was a stupid comment, sure. But his point should be well-taken.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] From the home office in Downtown Waynesboro … The Top 11 Things That We Could Have Done Better With The $126,000 That We Paid To Doug Walker Not To Be Our City Manager …
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m curious as to what Bruce Allen was trying to convey when he said this morning, “I’m here to serve all the people of Waynesboro, not just a select group.” I think I know what he was trying to say. During our city-council race this year, Allen’s handlers made…
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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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