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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] I can’t imagine what it’s like to run for president. OK, I can. I’m running for city council in my hometown, and I did so knowing full well what could end up happening. “C’mon, people like me, respect me. No way this one ends up in the…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Waynesboro Public Library will be celebrating its patrons on April 15. Patron Appreciation Day is being held as part of National Library Week, which runs from April 13-19. “During the National Library Week, communities across America celebrate and visit their local libraries. We thought that it is appropriate for us…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] I know that the farmers need the rain. I’ve long since gotten that. The weather people tell us that constantly. Why don’t they ever go on and on about how, I dunno, the humor writer needs sun and 80 degrees? I mean, it wouldn’t hurt me if…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] We all have a bit of Peter Pan in us. We might not always want to admit it, but we resist growing up and its pretensions when we can, and if we could magically conjure ourselves into Neverland, we would. Alas, life is too real for such concerns to take…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A pair of benefits will raise money for the Waynesboro High School Concert Choir as the choir prepares for its upcoming performance at Carnegie Hall in New York. An indoor yard sale in the WHS gym is on the schedule for Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Yard-sale donations…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. has been accredited as a 2008 National Main Street Program. WDDI learned of the designation on Monday. The development organization joins a list of more than 675 downtown-revitalization programs earning the distinction from the National Trust Main Street Center. WDDI’s performance was evaluated by Virginia Main…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] We’re starting to learn a little bit more about Slade Woodson, the 19-year-old from Afton who is now facing felony charges in Waynesboro related to two shootings early yesterday morning, and is being called a suspect in a series of shootings reported on Interstate 64 in Albemarle County from the…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] I think we learned yesterday that we can rest assured that our law-enforcement folks are going to keep us safe no matter what. “We had one here in Waynesboro,” Waynesboro police chief Doug Davis told me, referring to the shootings reported overnight Wednesday and Thursday on Interstate…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] An Afton teen in custody in connection with two shootings in Waynesboro early Thursday morning is considered a suspect in a series of shootings that were reported along a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 64 in Albemarle County. Slade Woodson, 19, was taken into custody upon the execution of a search…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s hard offering community theater that appeals to the whole family. “One thing we were discussing with the board was having a family show. Not a children’s show, but a family show. And they’re not easy to find,” said Suzanne Roberts, the director of the upcoming Waynesboro Players production of…
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