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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: Waynesboro about to lose its mayor Tom Reynolds announced his retirement effective June 30 from Waynesboro City Council. Reynolds was instrumental in having the city council think long-range – to his own detriment, if you judge the controversy that foes of his forward thinking raised in…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] He was on the good end of a 12-hour shift. “It’s 2:30. Just a few more hours, and then I get to go home,” Dwayne Schwartz told me as he drove us across the city of Waynesboro today in a dump truck equipped with a plow to move snow from…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Rusty Ashby is concerned about the fiscal future of the Queen City. “I think it’s acquired a lot of debt over the last few years, and I think there’s going to be some real infrastructure needs – with roads, with water and sewer, those things that people don’t like to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Some Valley satellite-TV subscribers will finally be able to receive local television stations as part of their channel lineups. DirecTV is providing local TV stations in the Harrisonburg TV market – including Harrisonburg and Rockingham and Staunton, Waynesboro and Augusta – beginning today. The news was announced yesterday by Sixth…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] Sorry that I’m keeping this personal again this week. Those who read last week’s column know that my father, William Mark Graham, Billy, as he was known by most, Dad or Papa, by some of the others of us, passed away on Jan. 2. It was sudden…
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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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