Share
Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Democratic Party gubernatorial-nomination candidate Brian Moran, the sponsor of Alicia’s Law legislation to provide monies for local law enforcement to investigate online sex predators, offered praise on Thursday for the arrest of a Stuarts Draft man who stands accused of molesting a 3-year-old girl. “The work of local law enforcement…
Share
Story by Chris Graham [email protected] He’s taking a shower one morning when he realizes something odd. Three hours have just passed, and he can’t remember what has happened. Slowly, Rob comes to learn that he has the ability to skip hours, even days, with no perceptible break in consciousness. Which is great for him, because…
Share
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…
Share
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…
Share
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…
Share
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…
Share
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…
Share
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…
Share
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…
Share
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…
We have reached 57 percent of what we need to fund critical operations for 2026. If you have been waiting for the right time to support AFP, this is it.