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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro leaders are discussing what to do about the real-estate tax rate. One option is to raise it four cents, as the city manager has proposed. The second option is to keep it where it is, and make some drastic cuts to services. We wouldn’t…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m remembering a conversation that I had at the post office a day before the city-council election with a resident who I know knows exactly what he’s talking about when it comes to city-government matters. “Who does Doug Walker work for?” he asked me, matter…
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Column by Erin Gutzwiller For years it has always been a tradition that the last weekend in April the students of Bridgewater College go camping in West Virginia. Rain or shine, the camping trip known as Flagpole occurs, and this year was my last Flagpole adventure ever. Camping attire on, coolers packed with hot dogs,…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Ed Keenan once came within a few inches of blowing up half of Augusta County. He’s spent the past couple of years trying to figure out why. “When the train started out that day, the licensed engineer didn’t know he was supposed to be supervising me, I didn’t…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The six candidates for Staunton City Council will take part in a candidates forum Monday at 7 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at Staunton City Hall at 116 W. Beverley St. There are four open seats on the seven-member city council up for grabs in the May 6 city…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte A recent statistic from the Department of Justice shows that someone is assaulted in the U.S. every 7.2 seconds, raped every 2.7 minutes and murdered every 31 minutes. These figures are truly disturbing and something must be done. That is why I joined my Republican colleagues from the House Judiciary Committee…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] She wasn’t trying to be Rosa Parks. “We were just tired of the separate-but-equal thing. Because it certainly wasn’t separate-but-equal,” said Rita Wilson, who is retiring from Staunton City Council on June 30 after 16-plus years on the job, and who a generation ago made her first foray into public…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The cook had been blackmailed into poisoning a high-ranking bishop, then naturally was caught for his crime and sentenced to execution. To deter future such crimes, and to distance himself from any apparent involvement in the poisoning incident, Henry VIII arranges to have the man boiled to death. The scene…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen No Cineplex for me, this week. No seven-dollar bag of popcorn or four-dollar sody pop. Nossir. I’m staying home to watch movies. On my computer. For free. You see, my friends, I am learning to dance the hulu. There’s a new website out there that’s just made…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Just wondering … Where are all the people who were so concerned that The New York Times was playing partisan politics when it reported on allegations of ties between Republican Party presidential candidate John McCain and a female lobbyist that his aides had reportedly warned him could be damaging to…
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