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Column by Lorie Smith www.loriesmith.com I’m happy to report that last week’s Tourism Summit was a tremendous success! Approximately 35 business representatives and interested citizens came out to show support for a strategic tourism initiative in Waynesboro. All in attendance agreed that city officials, business owners and residents must partner and collaborate to aggressively market…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro police ran 633 calls in 2009 for what turned out to be false alarms triggered by electronic security systems. That’s a call or two a day every day for the year. At 28 minutes per call on average spent dealing with the calls, that’s a half-hour to an…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A budget crisis nearly closed the doors at Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge, but several months of hard work from its volunteer board of directors and an infusion of staff talent has the nonprofit thinking big. “It’s a pretty ambitious goal. This year we want…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Ward C City Council candidate Robert Johnson Jr. will host a meet and greet coffee social at the Rosenwald Community Center on Port Republic Road in Waynesboro on Thursday. The event will run from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The public is invited.
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Story by Chris Graham WaynesboroYMCA.com WaynesboroYMCA.com has a feature story on a fitness program called Zumba that is designed to add fun to the fitness by incorporating a variety of Latin dances into the workouts. Access the story on WaynesboroYMCA.com.
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Featuring Chris Graham [email protected] AFP editor Chris Graham presents Waynesboro City Councli with a copy of a series of special reports on economic development produced by AugustaFreePress.com. Chris spoke before City Council at its meeting Monday night.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Monica Wright, Dawn Evans and Devon Brown did their parts, but UVa., JMU and Liberty each fell short in their first-round NCAA Tournament games over the weekend. Wright had 34 points and nine rebounds in her final game as a Cavalier, which saw fifth-seeded Virginia fall 69-67 to 12th-seeded…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Nineteen months. That’s a long time at the height of the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression to be doing economic development on the fly. Waynesboro finally took a step in the direction of again becoming a player in the development arena with the announcement last week that…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] All I wanted to be able to do, I told myself throughout my 2008 campaign for Waynesboro City Council, was to think at 7 p.m. on Election Night that I’d done everything I could do to put myself in a position to be able to win. Win or lose,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The search for a new economic-development director in Waynesboro that had dragged on for 19 months is over. City Manager Mike Hamp announced in a press release Thursday morning that Greg Hitchin, currently the business development manager in Onondaga County in New York, has taken the job effective April…
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