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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….
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] I wrote earlier – and facetiously – about Jim Gilmore’s good timing regarding his visit to Waynesboro to talk with the editorial staff at The News Virginian on Monday hours before Waynesboro City Council voted 3-0 to pass the Gilmore no car tax buck on to city taxpayers. And now…
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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…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Broda will bring her acoustic Americana stylings to the Friday-night gig at Stone Soup Books and Cafe in Downtown Waynesboro. There is no cover charge, but space is limited, and reservations are advised. Call 540.943.0084 for seating availability.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It was a midday Thursday event in Waynesboro featuring a former Mississippi governor stumping for Barack Obama. You wouldn’t expect to see more than a handful of people on hand, right? So then when 55 people show up to see Ray Mabus talk about what Obama wants to do to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Wayne Theatre Alliance is moving forward with plans to begin the restoration of the 82-year-old downtown theatre. Work on the project will begin within days, Alliance executive director Clair Myers reported in an e-mail to current and past board members that was sent out this morning. The front half…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] News Virginian editor Lee Wolverton and I agree on two things – well, maybe three. I’m adding one that I hope we’d assent to – that it was a pleasure to sit down a few months back and talk issues. Of the other two, I am certain – that we…
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