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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] PUSH: Waynesboro City Council still can’t decide what to do about stormwater It seems to me that the general fund is a bad place to get money for improvements to a service like this. That might be me, but … I understand that the chamber of commerce…
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William Mark “Billy” Graham, 54, of 30 Fishersville Station Road, Fishersville, died at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday (Jan. 2, 2008) at his home. He was born Sept. 14, 1953 in Deerfield, the son of the late John and Mary Adkins Graham. He was employed for 20 years at General Electric and Genicom in Waynesboro. He was also…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Agencies that had shied away from applying for funding allocations from the United Way of Greater Augusta because of the charitable organization’s fund-raising blackouts got some good news last month. The local United Way has done away with the restrictions on raising money during the United Way campaign season for…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] PUSH: Waynesboro voters continue to send mixed message The River City mirrors America – split right down the middle in the November bond referendum, the voters send a mix of conservatives and progressives to city council in May, thus guaranteeing more 3-2 splits on the issues of…
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Story by Matthew Warner What’s so horrible about porn other than the poor quality of most of it? And why should you care? ‘LITERARY OBSCENITY’ Watch out, you writers and purveyors of erotic horror and explicit romance. The folks here in my Bible Belt city of Staunton, Virginia, care quite a bit. Last summer, when…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When you’re a TV weatherman, a trip to the local burger place can be a challenge not unlike the 10K races that Eric Pritchett runs when he’s not standing in front of a television screen telling us what Mother Nature has in store for us tomorrow. “What’s it going to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It wasn’t that there was much left downtown, but Phil Lemons knew that whatever traffic there had been before the West End took off with the opening of Wal-Mart in Waynesboro in 2003 was pretty much going, going, gone. “Having experienced it in other towns, whenever a shopping center comes…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Somebody asked Don Morris to sign a petition protesting the pending arrival of Wal-Mart in Waynesboro six years ago. That the longtime Downtown Waynesboro business owner didn’t is an indication of where his thoughts are on economic-development issues. “That to me was a no-brainer. Staunton had a Wal-Mart, Staunton had…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: SRI International brings Silicon Shenandoah promise It will be years before we know this for sure, but … Look what SRI did to the Silicon Valley in California. Its presence in the Valley will be transformative. Write that down. ASCENDING: SRI International, James Madison University, Coors,…
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Waynesboro-based artist and professional illustrator Cortney Skinner will be the subject of the inaugural Conversations With … being sponsored by Augusta Free Press Publishing scheduled for Friday evening. The live interview presentation will be held at Augusta Free Press Publishing at 539 W. Main St. in Downtown Waynesboro. The interview presentation will begin at 6:30…
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