Gotta know the warning signs
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The sensation was like “pouring warm water starting from the top of my head all the way down to my toes on the left side.” And it scared Chris DeWald, but not the doctor who treated him initially.
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Summer catch
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Story by Chris Graham Pete VandenBout admits to being a “little nervous” when he showed up to play baseball in Waynesboro a couple of years ago, not so much because of the baseball, but because he didn’t know the first thing about the family that was going to put him up for the summer. “Right…
‘I never really gave up’
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I could imagine L.D. Cox as the gregarious 19-year-old who helped deliver the first atomic bomb across the Pacific. “Don’t shoot!” he said in mock surrender as he made his way across the drill field at Fishburne Military School on a sunny late-March afternoon, passing a cannon that was going to be fired a little…
Cash flow: Local bank, credit unions doing well in spite of financial crisis
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I’m reading an article in Time magazine a few weeks back, and there’s a report on how a few new local community banks seem to be doing well in spite of what would seem to be the conventional wisdom on banks and business across the board.
Three bowls of soup: Local restaurants using local ingredients affect communities in unforeseen ways
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Will Richey began to notice a difference in the Charlottesville Farmers Market in the late ’90s. Besides the usual crowd seeking coffee and muffins or a week’s worth of groceries, he started running into Charlottesville’s best chefs.
These routes are made for walkin’
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Everybody knows Sophie. That, and it’s not as long a walk from the 500 block of Chestnut to Berkeley Glenn as I’d thought it might be.
Team Coverage | They fixed the downtown stoplight
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AFP editor Chris Graham has been on City Hall to do something about the maddening stoplight at the intersection of Main and Wayne in Downtown Waynesboro. Good news – they’ve finally done something! Graham covers the story with a video interview of assistant city manager Jim Shaw and a written report including perspectives from several…
Wetlands damage leads to record fine for county homeowner
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An Augusta County homeowner has been fined a record $145,000 by the State Water Control Board for damage incurred to five acres of protected wetlands stemming from activities undertaken during the construction of a $2.4 million mansion on Quarles Pond in Stuarts Draft.
Gas prices hold steady
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The average price for gallon of regular unleaded in Virginia is at $1.95 this morning, unchanged from a week ago. Crude oil prices ended last week slightly above $50 to close at $53.20 Friday. Corporate earnings reports, a strengthening dollar, growing oil and gasoline inventories and Chrysler heading to bankruptcy all factored into setting the…
Local Democratic Party News and Notes
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Grassroots training postponed A grassroots training program for Valley Democrats that had been scheduled for Saturday, May 9, in Harrisonburg has been postponed. The program will be rescheduled for a future date, Democratic Party of Virginia political director Don Marks said today.
