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Item by Mary K. Heatwole The Bridgewater College Alumni Choir will present a concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 17, at the Bridgewater Church of the Brethren. The Alumni Choir was co-founded by Dr. Jesse Hopkins, the Edwin L. Turner Distinguished Professor of Music at Bridgewater College, and Jonathan Emmons, a 2005 graduate. Emmons will…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Shenandoah Valley is among the reddest parts of red-state America. Tim Russert, God rest his soul, needed a brighter shade for us to get across just how red we are. George W. Bush got 74.4 percent of the vote in Augusta County and Rockingham County in 2004,…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Frank Lucente’s city-council campaign has officially retired its debt, though it took a late infusion of cash from some big-money supporters for the self-styled fiscal conservative to be able to do so. Lucente had listed a campaign debt of $2,148 on a campaign-finance report filed…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Lifesong will be performing live in concert at the Ridgeview Park Ampitheater in Waynesboro tomorrow night. The concert is part of the Summer of Praise Concert Series. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. Admission is free.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] An urgent message from a business colleague yesterday. “Call me. Private.” I’m expecting some sort of scoop. I had no idea I would be the subject of the scoop. Turns out that somebody is calling around asking friends and former and current business associates the…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNERS: We get to keep our Starbucks! Starbucks has released a list of the coffee shops that it will be closing as part of its restructuring, and – phew! – our shops in Staunton and Waynesboro are safe. More strawberries and cream for me, and peppermint white chocolate mocha for…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] How’s this for a juxtaposition? Wayne Theatre Alliance chairman Bill Hausrath calls himself “an eternal optimist,” while I’m an preternaturally-pessimistic political realist. But while Hausrath is wondering aloud if the Wayne project can survive without already-promised city funding coming as expected, I think it can, or rather, that…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Let me write my 91st column on that stupid downtown stoplight, and hope that somebody actually pays attention this time. Alright, it’s not actually my 91st column, but I’m getting close – and I have to say that there’s no way I’m the only person…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov. Tim Kaine has some ideas for saving state taxpayer money in this day and age of $4-a-gallon gasoline. Kaine announced yesterday a telework initiative for 120 employees in his Cabinet and in the governor’s office and a directive to all state agencies to consider ways to improve and expand…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m trying to resist the temptation to wonder aloud if tattering on the freedom to ride a moped in Waynesboro sans chapeau is a better-to-do-with-our-time kind of thing or not. Because I didn’t realize until I read the editorial in today’s News Virginian that city…
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