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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Wind in the Willows opens the James Madison University Children’s Playshop season next week. The R. Eugene Jackson play runs May 22-June 1. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Saturdays and 3:30 p.m. on Sundays. The production is directed by William Buck, the…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] “No, I’ve said repeatedly that I will not raise your taxes.” “No, I don’t actually want Invista to close up shop.” “I want to run Invista out of town and pave over their property for a baseball stadium? What?” This is just what got back to…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A 1907 murder trial in Nelson County is the setting of a new play by Faber playwright Peter Coy that will open at the Hamner Theater in Nellysford on May 23. A Shadow of Honor is inspired by the true events of the William Loving murder trial. Waynesboro resident Jonas…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I can’t say anything bad about Mac. I know a lot of people who can. Does that list include the powers-that-be at UVa.? Have to wonder, don’tcha? “Representing Virginia Athletics and being the voice has been a true passion for me. I now have an…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] White House historian Dr. William Seale will be the keynote speaker at the third annual Wilson/Woodrow/Bolling/Axson First Families Reunion next week. Seale’s talk, “The Wilsons of the White House,” will be delivered on Friday, May 9, at 4 p.m. on the Emily Smith Terrace at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Augusta County Democrats elected 11 delegates to represent the local party at the Democratic Party State Convention on June 14. Six are pledged to support Barack Obama at the convention – Tamara Kincaid, Elizabeth La Grua, Tom Long, Riley Murray, Starke Smith and Sherry Stanley. Five are committed to Hillary…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It was hard enough getting Kitty Lough to go into an independent-living facility, harder still to get her to accept the change in her lifestyle. She never would have guessed back then that she’d miss it as much as she does now. “She’s finally gotten over the stage of saying,…
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Yeah, I know, invoking “Field of Dreams” in a piece examining the economic aspects of a proposed $20 million baseball stadium is beyond cheesy. But I do it to try to make you consider something that you might not otherwise. Namely, that the whole idea rests on the notion that a Downtown Waynesboro baseball stadium…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Just last week, that big Golden Gate up yonder creaked open, and Charlton Heston was admitted to Movie Star Heaven. Naturally, he received a standing ovation from the ghosts of William S. Hart, Douglas Fairbanks, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Gary Cooper and Kirk Douglas (who is not…
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Item by Jim Bishop It’s an invigorating breath – two, actually – of spring. The Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir will present its 16th annual concerts 7 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 12 and 3 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 13, in Lehman Auditorium at Eastern Mennonite University. The Preparatory Choir, with 37 children ages 8-11 directed by Joy Anderson,…
