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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] “Voices in the blogosphere had been murmuring in the tatter of keyboards that the conservative bloc had endeavored to subvert open meetings law along with city regulations in reforming the Finance Committee a week ago with only Williams and Lucente as members,” The News Virginian…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: Tim Williams shows some backbone If you get a chance to catch the replay of the city-council meeting on Channel 14, please do take a look. Around the 20-minute mark, you’ll see a debate over the makeup of the Finance Committee between Vice Mayor Frank Lucente and former vice…
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Item by Jim Bishop Eastern Mennonite University has named a new director of the Summer Peacebuilding Institute, which is part of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. Lynn Roth, CJP executive director, announced that Sue Williams will succeed Pat Hostetter Martin, who is retiring after giving 10 years of leadership to the program. The Summer…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro City Council is adding a third member to its Finance Committee, while effectively making the committee’s work the work of the entire council.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Should stormwater improvements be a higher priority in Waynesboro? Waynesboro was looking at spending $1.2 million this year to get its long-awaited and long-debated stormwater-improvement project up and running, but that was before the new vice mayor, Frank Lucente, switched positions on the source of funding for…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] A question has arisen regarding the makeup of the Finance Committee appointed by Mayor Tim Williams last week at city council’s reorganization meeting. The question – doesn’t the committee appointed by Williams, consisting of Williams and Vice Mayor Frank Lucente, need to have one more…
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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…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Finally, the new majority answers my criticism of the decision to close the bulk-refuse collection center. And go figure, it includes a slur aimed at the dreaded Wayne Theatre. “It all boils down to this. The money was there, but we made the wrong decisions,”…
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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…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSERS: Those of us overreacting to Wes Clark Look, the guy was wounded in Vietnam himself, OK? Stop calling him unpatriotic. It was a stupid comment, sure. But his point should be well-taken.
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