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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The cook had been blackmailed into poisoning a high-ranking bishop, then naturally was caught for his crime and sentenced to execution. To deter future such crimes, and to distance himself from any apparent involvement in the poisoning incident, Henry VIII arranges to have the man boiled to death. The scene…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A shooting at an unoccupied vehicle at the DuPont Community Credit Union branch on Lucy Lane in Waynesboro may or may not be connected to a series of shootings just up Interstate 64 in Albemarle County. Waynesboro police chief Doug Davis confirmed details of the shooting, which according to a…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I’ve played my fair share of sets on the tennis courts at Ridgeview Park over the years, and so I’m familiar with the notion that it has long since been past time for something to be done about their condition. That big check that you see in the picture to…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] News Leader columnist and cookbook author Mollie Bryan will lead a Waynesboro Cultural Commission-sponsored workshop on “Writing Memoirs, Essays and Columns” on Saturday at Stone Soup Books in Downtown Waynesboro. Bryan is the author of Mrs. Rowe’s Restaurant Cookbook: A Lifetime of Recipes from the Shenandoah Valley. Her essays have…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro Galleries is hitting the road – and you can follow them all the way to Las Vegas. Owners Kevin Blackburn and Mark Miller are headed out West for the annual Wedding and Portrait Photographers International Conference on March 11. The Downtown Waynesboro-based photographers will be blogging throughout their 5,000-mile…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Jeff Ryman got the buzz. Carnegie Hall was on the line. Could he take the call? He knew what it had to be about. And he knew it was going to be amazing news. “I was alone in the choral suite, nobody around. And I sort of felt like I…
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Story by Erin Gutzwiller If asked three months ago if running for Waynesboro City Council was an option, Jeremy Taylor would have answered a simple “no.” But since then, the current Waynesboro School Board Ward C representative decided that his “talents can help continue our reputation as a great small city and, at the same…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] “Remember me? You wrote about me a few years ago. Said I was ‘the first bag lady of Waynesboro.’ ” Of course I remembered her. Bonnie Kiblinger. Collects aluminum and just about everything else, takes it all to the recycling center, donates the proceeds to area nonprofits….
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Photos by Chris Graham The Saltimbanco Bus Tour brought a circus-like atmosphere to Downtown Waynesboro Monday afternoon. Four performers from Saltimbanco engaged the crowds in an active street performance. The appearance was a sort of preview for an upcoming series of shows at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville scheduled for…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Saltimbanco brings Cirque de Soleil back to its roots of community involvement. And it will be on the streets of Staunton and Waynesboro on Monday through the Saltimbanco Bus Tour. “We created the bus to bring Cirque back to its roots of community involvement by provoking enthusiasm for Saltimbanco through…
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