Winners and Losers: July 3, 2008

Chris Graham

Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: AFP announces expansion Guess we couldn’t let the first full day of our seventh year of operations go without adding more fun to our plates. Beginning in January, our flagship print publication, The New Dominion Magazine, will be published monthly. “Response to the magazine the past year and a…

Still giving him the benefit of the doubt

Chris Graham

Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] An AFP reader raised a good point in a comment today on our team coverage of yesterday’s city-council reorganization. “Bruce Allen’s comment in the News Virginian about Mr. Walker’s firing … ‘some issues were personnel issues,’ bothers some of us. … How would Mr. Allen…

New council tries to put good face on divided government

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I would say everything went according to script at this morning’s reorganization meeting of Waynesboro City Council. Tim Williams is mayor, as Frank Lucente told me six weeks ago would be the case. Lucente, meanwhile, is vice mayor, Mike Hamp is the interim city manager, and John Kiger is still…

Another political misstep

Chris Graham

Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Bad political move on the part of the new Lucente-Williams-Allen front group regarding who will be our next vice mayor. “I don’t see it as a possibility,” would-be-mayor Tim Williams told The News Leader for a story published in this morning’s edition, regarding the talk…

Winners and Losers: June 24, 2008

Chris Graham

Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: Waynesboro Mayor Tom Reynolds goes out on a high note Nice tribute from Waynesboro City Council members to the outgoing mayor, Tom Reynolds, last night. Big ups to Tim Williams for sharing a personal story that broke through the tensions that we’ve been feeling here in the ‘Boro in…

You can smearmonger better than that, can’t you?

Chris Graham

Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Stewart Hall wasn’t around for the end of the now-infamous interview of John Lawrence that was conducted late last year by a group of self-styled business conservatives for their informal nomination to run for city council’s Ward B seat. According to Lawrence, Hall got upset…