Marshall: Controversial comments were ‘misimpression’

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected]     One-time GOP Senate nomination candidate Bob Marshall has come under fire for comments that he made last week to the effect that he believes that God punishes women who have had abortions by giving birth defects to later children born to them. “The number of children who are born…

Smith to hold town-hall meeting Wednesday

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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] Waynesboro City Councilwoman Lorie Smith will hold a town-hall meeting with city residents on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in Multipurpose Room A in the Waynesboro Public Library. The event, “A Conversation with the Citizens of Waynesboro,” is open to the public. Smith is running for re-election to City Council in…

AFP.com confirms e-mail invites to Chamber members

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   Story by Chris Graham [email protected] AugustaFreePress.com has obtained a copy of the e-mail sent to some Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce members to invite them to hear from former Chamber president and CEO Ben Carter about his recent forced departure from the organization. The invitation was for a meeting at Reo Distribution Services…

Chris Graham: What do they have to hide?

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City Council debates transparency, and transparency isn’t faring too well right now Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Let’s just say it like it is. Government is supposed to be of the people, by the people, for the people. I had no heartburn when the critics came out of the woodwork to criticize President Obama and…

Chris Graham: A little here, a little there, and it starts to add up

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   Column by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s a cold, hard reality. Waynesboro, like most other communities in the Commonwealth and across the country, is facing pretty severe budget shortfalls, both in the near term and into next year. Policy moves at the local and state level aren’t making things any easier. We’ll start in City…

Chris Graham: Breakfast is overrated, anyway

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   Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Leave it to people who call themselves conservatives to in one breath put school breakfast and lunch programs in the “not government’s responsibility” category and in the next bemoan the transfer responsibility from the public sector to the private the operation of a facility that happens to be in…

It’s yoga time

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Classes offer exercise, meditative benefits Story by Chris Graham www.waynesboroymca.com Yoga will relax you for the hour or two that you’re practicing it. And as you get into it more, yoga will change your life. “What I learn in the time that I spend on my mat is I take what I get there and…

The AFP Show | Budgets and triggermen

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   Hosted by Chris Graham [email protected]   The AFP Show | Budgets and triggermen (20:21) [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/thenewdominion01/THE_AFP_SHOW_feb._18.mp3] The Feb. 18 installment of The AFP Show has editor Chris Graham conversing with: – State Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Woodstock, whose legislative initiative to extend exposure to the death penalty to people who order hits or engage others in…

Tri for the Y

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Sprint triathlon will challenge participants Story by Chris Graham www.waynesboroymca.com Call it the Waynesboro Ironman. The Tri for the Y, scheduled for Saturday, June 6, features a 400-meter swim, a challenging 15-mile bike ride, then finishes up with a 5K run along the South River. Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? “We didn’t exactly shy away…