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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] A question has arisen regarding the makeup of the Finance Committee appointed by Mayor Tim Williams last week at city council’s reorganization meeting. The question – doesn’t the committee appointed by Williams, consisting of Williams and Vice Mayor Frank Lucente, need to have one more…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The explatory gubernatorial bid of Northern Virginia Democratic legislator Brian Moran is doing quite well, thank you, on the money front. Virginians for Brian Moran director Mame Reiley announced today that the committee will report $1.38 million in receipts in the first reporting period in 2008.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Wildlife Center of Virginia is sponsoring two training classes on wildlife rehabilitation on Saturday in Middletown. The classes are designed for people who are interested in learning more about providing basic health care for wildlife.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. is looking for a few good chili chefs. Chili chefs from across the Valley and Central Virginia are invited to take part in the second annual Chili, Blues ‘N Brews Cook-off sponsored by WDDI. The Cook-off is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 6, from 11 a.m. to…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Fifth District is no longer safe for Virgil Goode. That’s the word from Congressional Quarterly, the Cook Political Report, and Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, all of which have moved the Fifth Congressional District race between the Republican Goode and Democrat Tom Perriello from “safe Republican” to “likely Republican.” Which…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Finally, the new majority answers my criticism of the decision to close the bulk-refuse collection center. And go figure, it includes a slur aimed at the dreaded Wayne Theatre. “It all boils down to this. The money was there, but we made the wrong decisions,”…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Good news for travelers who drive back and forth to Charlottesville every day. The bridge rehab on Interstate 64 over Stockton Creek at mile marker 108 has been substantially completed, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation, and both westbound lanes were reopened to traffic yesterday afternoon. But we’re not…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Bad news for Virginia Tech football fans – the already-depleted wide-receiver corps is going to be down its top flanker in 2008. Redshirt junior wideout Brandon Dillard is out for the season after rupturing his right Achilles tendon in player-organized passing drills on Tuesday. The walkon had worked his way…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] I know that politics is a dirty, dirty, dirty pursuit. I just ran a local city-council campaign, so I’m not speaking about this from an academic or philosophical perspective, but from personal experience. I’m saying that now so you can understand where I’m coming from regarding the issue being…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] An AFP reader raised a good point in a comment today on our team coverage of yesterday’s city-council reorganization. “Bruce Allen’s comment in the News Virginian about Mr. Walker’s firing … ‘some issues were personnel issues,’ bothers some of us. … How would Mr. Allen…
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