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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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Staff Report An 18-year-old Waynesboro man was charged on Tuesday in connection with a shooting that police had initially said was self-inflicted. Brian H. Henkel has been charged with discharge of a firearm in an occupied dwelling in the Sept.8 shooting of Joshua Via, 21, who suffered a gunshot wound to the chest. Via has…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Former Mississippi governor Ray Mabus will be in Waynesboro on Thursday to lead a “Real Change for Rural America” community forum for the Barack Obama presidential campaign. Mabus served as governor of Mississippi from 1988-1992 and was selected as the best governor of the millennium in a 1999 poll commissioned…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Waynesboro Public Library Foundation is back on with its kickoff fundraiser for its campaign to collect matching funds for the upcoming expansion of the 600 S. Wayne Ave. library. The Foundation will run a hot-dog stand at the Kroger on Arch Avenue on Wednesday from 4-7 p.m. and Saturday…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Todd Patrick knows Waynesboro well enough to refer to the Waynesboro Town Center as the place where the old Outlet Village used to be. “I don’t know what it was, but something about the community always seemed attractive. The people were always nice, always cordial, just wonderful to be around….
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Waynesboro Public Library Foundation fundraiser set for Friday and Saturday in the Kroger parking lot has been canceled due to bad weather in the forecast for the next two days. The Foundation was going to operate a hot-dog stand at the Kroger on Arch Avenue Friday and Saturday to…
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