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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance needs … you. The downtown-development nonprofit is looking for volunteers for its Valley 4th celebration. About 80 volunteers are needed to staff the information booth, help with the parade, manage the crowd during the fireworks show and more. Those interested in helping out are asked to contact…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] So you know how we’re cutting services left and right because the supposed conservatives who will be taking over city council at the end of the month have something that they call a philosophy, right? Right. The bulk-refuse collection center is on the chopping block….
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] If you know me at all, you know that I’m a sucker for a good idea. The Staunton Creative Community Fund is a good idea.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] At least one AFP reader doesn’t agree with me that it’s all that bad that the power players in a political group that backed the successful candidates in our recent elections don’t live in Waynesboro. “If they have business interests in the city, I think…
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Dull Ache column by W.R. Marshall adullache.today.com With the primaries finally over – although it hasn’t really sunk I still wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, thinking it’s 2037 and hearing Hillary say “If I win in Guam, they’ll have to give me the nomination” – it’s on to…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m still struggling with where our would-be mayor is coming from regarding what he seems to think he wants out of our next city manager. “I, basically, want a city manager to give me the facts, not his opinions or lobbying for a particular cause…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] John Lawrence has a story to tell about the events that led to the effective firing of city manager Doug Walker, and I’m not the first person he’s told it to. By Lawrence’s account, I’m the third journalist to get the details of the meeting…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s still just talk, but even the idea that Jerry Gwaltney might be heading back to Waynesboro for a second try at the city-manager job is starting to worry people who remember his years in the big office in City Hall.
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The Politcs Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] Why is Bob Goodlatte banging the drum on the Second Amendment? “You can count on me to fight to protect our rights,” Goodlatte wrote in a fund-raising letter dated May 16 that he began with mention of a case now in front of the United States Supreme…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] How about the sudden about-face of our would-be mayor? “I don’t see any need to air out our discrepancies and our differences. Kind of give Mr. Walker respect,” Tim Williams said in a voicemail message to the News Leader that was reported in that paper’s…
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