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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m trying to piece together what News Virginian reporter Jimmy LaRoue was trying to do in his story this morning about a real-estate connection between outgoing city manager Doug Walker and local real-estate developer Bill Hausrath.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] It would seem to buttress the case of the ultraconservatives that the average tenure of a city manager was five and a half years according to the International City/County Management Association, given that Doug Walker will be finishing up five and a half years in…
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Story by Laura Lehman Amstutz Eastern Mennonite Seminary is experimenting with different ways of expanding the learning process. The spring semester, six students and one professor tested the limits of online and in-person education with a “hybrid” course called “The Jesus Movement in the Early Context.” The students were all service workers living in various…
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Item by Jim Bishop A 2008 Eastern Mennonite University honors graduate has received a major fellowship award for graduate study. Donovan E. Tann, an English major with minor in church music from East Petersburg, Pa., was one of 15 students nationwide accepted into the Lilly Graduate Fellows Program operated by Valparaiso (Ind.) University. He was…
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The Local Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] Interesting editorial in today’s News Virginian about the supposed dangers of CFL bulbs. It would have been more interesting had the paper done even cursory research into the case of the Maine woman whose horror story illustrated the supposed dangers associated with the small amount of mercury contained…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll Question: How are gas prices affecting your daily life? Cars are our freedom. They’re how we get to work, go on vacation, make it to the parents’ house for Sunday dinner, travel to and from play practice and baseball and soccer games after school. Our freedom is…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Historian Ann Miller will present a lecture entitled “Development of County Road Systems and Their Impact on Early Settlement” at the final event in the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society’s Spring Lecture Series. The May 8 lecture will begin at 7 p.m. and will be held at the Shenandoah Valley Folk Art…
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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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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Shenandoah Valley is recession-proof. Charlottesville is recession-proof. I’ve heard people say this for years. As the argument goes, the local economies have two big things going for them – major universities and agriculture. Kids still go to school in recessions. And kids and everybody else still eat in recessions….
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Yeah, I know, invoking “Field of Dreams” in a piece examining the economic aspects of a proposed $20 million baseball stadium is beyond cheesy. But I do it to try to make you consider something that you might not otherwise. Namely, that the whole idea rests on the notion that a Downtown Waynesboro baseball stadium…
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