The World According To ChrisGraham.com: Waynesboro, stop trying to be Staunton

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Note to status-quo foes in Waynesboro: We’re wrong, way wrong. We don’t want to be more like Staunton. Look at the numbers. If anything, they should want to be more like us. The numbers don’t lie. Our economy is bigger – much bigger – than Staunton’s. According to taxable-sales figures from the Weldon Cooper Center…

Waynesboro splits with Harrisonburg, earns #5 seed in playoffs

Chris Graham

A seven-run fourth rallied Waynesboro from a 4-1 deficit in game two of a doubleheader at Harrisonburg and earned the Generals a split with the Turks on Monday. The split gives Waynesboro the #5 seed in the Valley League playoffs, which get going Tuesday night with the Generals traveling to Front Royal to take on…

Five-run rally lifts Waynesboro to wild 15-14 win

Chris Graham

A four-run top of the 12th seemed to give Woodstock one of the wildest games in the 87-year history of the Valley League. But we weren’t even close in terms of how wild things were going to get. Five consecutive two-out walks, the last one drawn by nine-hole hitter Jon Clinard, gave Waynesboro an improbable…

New Market holds off Waynesboro, 4-3

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham www.waynesborogenerals.com A two-out eighth-inning throwing error gave New Market the eventual winning run in a 4-3 win at Waynesboro Sunday night. The Generals had rallied twice from deficits on run-scoring hits by Drew Turocy. A two-out fifth-inning Turocy single scored Colin Harrington from second to tie the game at 1-1. Then…

Vanke gives Waynesboro a first impression

Chris Graham

Jeff Vanke was a one-man campaign team at Sunday’s Summer Extravaganza in Waynesboro. It’s called retail politicking – giving people what one voter who Vanke, an independent candidate for the Sixth District congressional seat currently held by Republican Bob Goodlatte, met recently called a “horseback view.” “It’s just a brief impression, but it speaks volumes,”…

New Waynesboro Chick-fil-A opens July 15

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   The Chick-fil-A restaurant chain and its famous renegade Cows will celebrate the opening of Waynesboro’s first Chick-fil-A restaurant on July 15 by awarding a free year’s supply of Chick-fil-A to the first 100 adults in line that morning at its new restaurant located at the Waynesboro Town Center. Chick-fil-A’s…

Tonight’s Waynesboro Generals game postponed

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected]   The Waynesboro Generals-Luray Wranglers game scheduled for Friday night has been postponed to Monday night. The postponement is the result of several Luray players being ill. The game will be played at Mathers Park at Kate Collins Field at 7 p.m. Monday. Free tickets given out as part of…