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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Fishburne Color Guard has the honor of presenting the colors before the James Madison-Delaware football game on Saturday. The game will be the Homecoming game for JMU, which is ranked #1 nationally in I-AA football. “We are thrilled that our Color Guard has the chance to take part in…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A museum on wheels dedicated to the legacy, such that it is, of the George W. Bush years will be in Waynesboro on Friday. The Bush Legacy Bus will make a stop at the Democratic Committee Election Headquarters in Willow Oak Plaza from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The 45-foot,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Two Mark Warner campaign events scheduled for Monday in Waynesboro have been postponed. There was no word from the campaign as to why the events had to be taken off the schedule. An e-mail from the campaign noted that all events scheduled for Sunday and Monday had to be taken…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Sonja Hoge was very much looking forward to voting in her first presidential election. A Waynesboro High School graduate and Virginia Commonwealth University sophomore, Hoge submitted an absentee-ballot request in August before she went back to school and got it in the mail back to Waynesboro last week….
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Former Virginia governor Mark Warner will be in Waynesboro on Monday to make two U.S. Senate campaign stops. A 4:15 p.m. event is being planned at Rick’s BBQ in Downtown Waynesboro. Warner will meet and greet voters at Rick’s at the free public event. Earlier on Monday, Warner is scheduled…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] People called Waynesboro High School last fall insisting that they had to be wrong, that the Night of the Superstars was going on, they just wanted to know when and what time. But Marvin Ward took 2007 off to focus on a new business venture. “The reason was time,” said…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Lee Wolverton and I don’t agree on much, so when we agree, that means something. And we agree that Waynesboro is facing a critical challenge. Lee has seen what we both think is happening to Waynesboro happen elsewhere. A small town struggles with its identity when the factories close up…
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An op-ed written by author Inman Majors on the ’08 election as it is playing out in Waynesboro was published in today’s New York Times. You can access the article here.
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Staff Report Magician John Coleman will be the featured performer at the debut of the Wayne Theatre Alliance Children’s Hour on Friday. The 5 p.m. event at Blue Ridge Christian Fellowship at 329 W. Main St. in Downtown Waynesboro is geared toward children ages 5-12. Coleman is a magician whose interest in the performance art…
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Staff Report “The River City Radio Hour” returns Friday night at 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. with another installment of Matthew Warner’s How the Martians Stole Christmas, music from The Boogie Kings and the “Radio Hour” debut of Bufffalo Gap High School junior Aaron Crosby. Waynesboro Police Department Lt. Mark Kearney will serve as the…
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