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Column by William Owens Jr. www.blackarc.org In a crisis situation, people without a North Star are reactive. Unable to proactively remedy a situation, they desperately fall back on old themes, old playbooks and old mentalities that worked in the past. As John McCain continues to surge in the polls, a panicked Barack Obama will once…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I’ve never seen Tim Williams nervous. I mean, he sings in front of large crowds, he benchpresses 300 pounds in the gym, and the guy doesn’t flinch. I don’t know that he was terribly nervous today, except that the usually stoic and reserved Williams was working the room before the…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Tim Williams was unanimously elected mayor, but the vote for vice mayor was the first in what we can assume will be a series of 3-2 votes from the new Waynesboro City Council. Frank Lucente was elected vice mayor in a party-line vote. Lorie Smith was defeated in her bid…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Everybody seems to want Gregg Williams to be the next Washington Redskins coach. I guess what everybody really wants, then, is for the ‘Skins to slide back into mediocrity. I’m being blunt here, but also accurate – when you look at the NFL head-coaching record…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNERS: Frank Lucente and Tim Williams join bond parade I’m calling them winners here not related to the politics of the issues involving bonds for a new West End fire station and improvements to the city library and the city stormwater system, because frankly my view on…
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Item by Chris Graham If you have to find a fill-in, Mary Chapin Carpenter isn’t a bad one to get lined up and ready to go. Carpenter will perform at the Fortune Williams Music Festival in Staunton on Sunday – filling in for Billy Joe Shaver, who had to cancel his scheduled appearance for medical…
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Story by Chris Graham The news that the Waynesboro police-chief job was coming open was still fresh in his mind, and already Doug Davis was thinking ahead. The 26-year veteran of the Williamsburg police force had been a frequent visitor to the River City – and he knew that the city and the city PD…
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Seems like we just got confirmation on the 2026-2027 UVA Basketball schedule not that long ago, and here we’re getting information on the 2027 UVA Football schedule already.
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Several readers asked us to look into the placement of Kristi Williams, the former president and CEO of the now-shuttered local United Way, into a position as a special education teacher at the high school for the current school year.
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The ever-mysterious “select media panel” has met in secret, and sent up its smoke signals to the polo shirts in the ACC Football offices in Charlotte that have since been deciphered to let the rest of us in on who this week’s ACC Football Players of the Week are.
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