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The Top Story by Chris Graham You see a Confederate-flag bumper sticker on a truck in a parking lot or on the highway, and already you have some ideas in your mind as to the identity of the person who put it there. “Nowadays, you’re not going to see a $30,000 SUV going down the…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Visitors to the Virginia Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry Web site can now click on an interactive map that pinpoints where offenders live in proximity to where they live – and get instant information on the nature of their offenses and even where they are employed….
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Story by Chris Graham DVD and pay-per-view sales – that’s why WWE is relaunching the ECW brand. “They did pretty well with single shots with ECW last year, and now they’re ready to see what a full-court press will do,” said Steve Johnson, a Virginia-based wrestling journalist and author. The full-court press includes another pay-per-view,…
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Story by Chris Graham ECW at its height was the antithesis of what professional wrestling has become – corporate, antiseptic, formulaic. The question of the summer is – how can the people who pioneered the concept of corporate, antiseptic, formulaic wrestling possibly do justice to the memory of the ECW revolution?
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Story by Chris Graham If Florida State can use an almost cartoonish Native American as its mascot, reasons the administration at the College of William and Mary, then what’s so bad about a logo with a couple of feathers? “What bothers us is that the NCAA has a problem with the use of two simple…
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Story by Chris Graham You had to pay close attention – but if you did, it was clear that the candidates for the two open seats on Waynesboro City Council weren’t interested in playing nice. “How many people here up at this table live by a budget every single day? I guarantee you that I…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham It has been seven months since Waynesboro City Council decided against acting on a proposal from the Wayne Theatre Alliance to have the city participate in a public-private project to renovate the 1926 downtown landmark. You’d think from listening to the rhetoric in this spring’s city-council elections that…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham One problem that Waynesboro has with regard to its plans for revitalizing its downtown-business district is “the fact that we don’t have buildings,” downtown businessman Len Poulin said. “But as I like to say, the biggest advantage that we have in rebuilding downtown is that we don’t have…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The fact that President Bush thinks intelligent design should be taught in American public schools is more than enough for JoAnne Shirley. “I absolutely hope that this becomes an issue here locally and statewide. Students need to be given a choice, as the president said,” said Shirley, a former…
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Story by Chris Graham Waynesboro City Council members have come across in recent weeks as being at odds among themselves and with city manager Doug Walker over issues involving the debt load that the city can take on and the city government’s handling of a recent political controversy regarding a proposed West End fire substation….
