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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] John Lawrence has a story to tell about the events that led to the effective firing of city manager Doug Walker, and I’m not the first person he’s told it to. By Lawrence’s account, I’m the third journalist to get the details of the meeting…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m trying to piece together what News Virginian reporter Jimmy LaRoue was trying to do in his story this morning about a real-estate connection between outgoing city manager Doug Walker and local real-estate developer Bill Hausrath.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] The Augusta Free Press and The News Virginian have been polling their web readers on the news involving the forced resignation of Waynesboro city manager Doug Walker, and the early returns aren’t looking good for the new conservative majority on Waynesboro City Council.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Maybe Alicia Rimel knows something I don’t. “The news squelched rumors that former City Manager Jerry Gwaltney might return to the job,” Rimel wrote in her story that appeared in Tuesday’s News Virginian about the appointment of assistant city manager Mike Hamp as the interim…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s still just talk, but even the idea that Jerry Gwaltney might be heading back to Waynesboro for a second try at the city-manager job is starting to worry people who remember his years in the big office in City Hall.
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The Local Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] There has been some interesting discussion about how much outgoing Waynesboro city manager Doug Walker gets paid in the days since the announcement that Walker will be stepping down from his job effective June 30. The focus of the talking has been that $125,000 a year is…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Back by popular demand, the Waynesboro Seventh-day Adventist Church is hosting a second gas-card giveaway. Free $10 gas cards will be given to the first 100 cars to come by the church at 1700 Lyndhurst Road on Thursday beginning at 5:30 p.m. The gas cards are good at area Hess…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] We’ve known each other for a long time, and I’ve known him to be a straight shooter. And quite opionated. It doesn’t bother me that I assume that he didn’t vote for me in the elections last month. I didn’t ask, though if I did,…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] You can take the Hatfield out of the Hatfield-McCoy feudin’, but you can’t take the feudin’ out of the Hatfield. “It’s a disservice to those who have given their lives,” Reo Hatfield told News Virginian reporter Bob Stuart for a story in today’s paper ostensibly…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Assistant city manager Mike Hamp will serve as the interim city manager when the clock strikes midnight on June 30-July 1. Hamp was named to the interim post by a unanimous vote of Waynesboro City Council this evening. The council met in closed session to…
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