Growing pains: Valley dealing with growth
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The Shenandoah Valley is the place to be – and Staunton mayor John Avoli couldn’t be any happier that this is now the case.
Search Results for housing
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Valley leaders watching megasite developments closely
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The Top Story by Chris Graham If the much-talked-about industrial megasite in Augusta County is developed down the road, it is not just Augusta County that will be impacted by the addition of thousands of jobs to the regional economy and thousands more new residents to the regional housing market.
Gassed
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The Top Story by Chris Graham When gasoline was a dollar a gallon, it made sense to pack up the family and head for the hills to escape the higher real-estate prices of the city.
Nighty night: What being a bedroom community really means
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The Greater Augusta area is a bedroom community for Charlottesville to the east and Harrisonburg to the north – that’s a fact.
What’s out there for our kids?
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Gary McQuain was a DuPonter – back when it meant something to say that, back when DuPont was a dominant player in the labor market in the Greater Augusta County area.
Staunton leaders consider tweaks to development plan
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Dickie Bell hates thinking that he might have been prescient when he raised objections to the proposed economic-development plan that was eventually adopted by Staunton City Council in 2002 that put the bulk of the focus of the city’s development efforts on the retail and tourism sectors.
24th GOP candidates talk budget issues
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Story by Chris Graham The big news out of Richmond this week is that the state is facing a possible $300 million budget deficit due to slowed tax collections.
Go ye into the world and smile …
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop The 2006-07 academic year at Eastern Mennonite University is almost history. To this observer, each seems to go by faster than the previous one. Sunday, the 89th annual commencement at EMU, will be my 36th to cover in my role as public-information officer. I’ve heard many speeches and watched…
Ward D candidates address West End fire station issue
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Story by Chris Graham Residents of Waynesboro’s West End have been asking the question for 20 years now. Where is that fire station that you promised us? The answer is not what they have been wanting to hear. “We’re going to eventually need a West End fire station. The biggest problem is budgetary,” Ward C…
A new way of doing business in Waynesboro?
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Story by Chris Graham Waynesboro City Councilman Frank Lucente said the city’s current economic-development strategy “isn’t working.” His solution for fixing things – better utilize the city industrial-development authority.
