Waynesboro: Best Western-Waynesboro honored

Chris Graham

Staff Report The Best Western Waynesboro Inn & Suites Conference Center has received the Best Western Chairman’s Award, the hotel chain’s highest honor for outstanding quality standards. The Chairman’s Award recognizes Best Western International hotels with a perfect quality assurance score of 1,000 points out of a possible 1,000. Hotels must also meet Best Western’s…

Waynesboro: Credit union wins three state awards

Chris Graham

Staff Report The Waynesboro-based DuPont Community Credit Union has won three community service awards in competitions sponsored by the Virginia Credit Union League and the Credit Union National Association. DCCU earned a first-place award in the Desjardins Youth Financial Education Awards, which honor credit unions for their commitment to teaching personal finance basics to young…

Waynesboro: Hamp salary, benefits trail Walker’s

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro City Council has agreed in principle on an employment agreement that will pay new city manager Mike Hamp a $115,000 base salary and provide him with a three-month severance. That salary and benefits package trails slightly that which had been given to Hamp’s predecessor in the city manager’s office,…

Waynesboro: Council appoints Hamp city manager

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You can take the interim tag off his title now. Mike Hamp was appointed by Waynesboro City Council to serve as city manager, filling the post left open by the resignation of Doug Walker. Hamp had been serving as the interim city manager since Walker stepped down effective June 30….

Waynesboro: Help Ike victims

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Staff Report The Blacksburg-based Spirit FM is teaming up with God’s Pit Crew in Danville to collect items for victims of the devastating Hurricane Ike on Friday in front of Foster’s Grille in Martin’s Plaza in Waynesboro. Collections will be taken from noon-7 p.m. Friday. Those wishing to donate are encouraged to drop off bottled…

Waynesboro: An open invitation to Barack Obama

Chris Graham

Column by Chris Graham [email protected] So now the world knows how badly Waynesboro wants its Obama-Biden signs. I wasn’t aiming at getting coverage on the front page of the Washington Post’s Virginia section, but sometimes these little crusades that you start at 2 in the morning trying to post an item on what you assumed…

Waynesboro: The Post reports on lack of Obama signs in River City

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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] And you thought I was just some party hack … Yes, that was me who was quoted on the Washington Post Virginia Politics Blog today about my complaints to the Barack Obama campaign about their policy regarding yard signs. “I think they might be missing the boat,” Chris Graham, chairman…

Waynesboro: Gilmore’s good timing

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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Jim Gilmore spent two hours in Waynesboro on Monday visiting with the editorial staff at The News Virginian. His timing could have been better, given what happened later Monday in the River City. “The thing that I have a dilemma about this is I don’t like to raise taxes on…