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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] So you know how we’re cutting services left and right because the supposed conservatives who will be taking over city council at the end of the month have something that they call a philosophy, right? Right. The bulk-refuse collection center is on the chopping block….
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Cutting services isn’t about philosophy. It’s about passing the buck, and guess who gets impacted the most when the buck gets passed? You guessed it. Those with the fewest bucks burning holes in their pockets.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s not like it wasn’t used. The Waynesboro public-works department recorded 25,968 visits to the city’s bulk-refuse collection center last year. Those visits will take city residents halfway across the county to Jollivue beginning July 1 – that, or we’re going to see a lot more bulky garbage piling up…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Two million jobs lost in the past decade. A quarter of a trillion dollar trade deficit just last year. And now we in Waynesboro are supposed to be jumping up and down happy about how Reo Hatfield wants to help China take more of our…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] My longest door-to-door conversation of the ’08 campaign season, hands down, came the day that I knocked on the door at 640 Maple Ave. The first question that I got that day from Lewis Price – “Who does the city assessor work for?” I did…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The River City Radio Hour returns to Downtown Waynesboro Friday night with music and mystery. Blues artist Kevin Chisnell will be making his first appearance at the Radio Hour, a production of the Waynesboro Cultural Commission, Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. and the Wayne Theatre Alliance. Chisnell will be joined on…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A Staunton pitcher and Waynesboro infielder were among the players honored by the Valley League for their performances last week.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] You would expect a self-styled fiscal conservative to be fastidious when it comes to dealings with money issues. I don’t know that we’re seeing that out of Councilman-elect Bruce Allen quite yet.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I, ahem, invited myself to Lofton Lake this past weekend, and I have to report after traipsing around the premises for a few hours on Saturday that it has been seriously oversold as being a “retreat” featuring cabins owned by “some of the region’s most…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m sure the power players are going to love their city council spending tens of thousands of dollars on a search firm to lead the process for hiring a new city manager. Oh, yeah. Because they were such big fans of the studies and reports…
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