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In short, everything. Invista, and its predecessor, DuPont, is the last significant vestige of the city’s once-glittering manufacturing economy. According to figures from the Virginia Employment Commission, Waynesboro began 2008 with around 2,100 manufacturing jobs, with roughly 1,100 of those being at the Invista plant, either directly employed by Invista or by a contractor providing…
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The news breaking this morning is that Invista is announcing another significant layoff. We’ll be providing more insight into that as the day goes on. Also this afternoon we’ll be joining in on a conference call with Democratic Party gubernatorial-nomination hopeful Brian Moran and a mystery guest who is said to be a Virginia Dem…
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Jerry Ratcliffe doesn’t think you have a right to say your piece. What you look at as being an American type that’s used to being able to share an opinion that might run counter to what he’s thinking at the time, he looks at as “negativity.” Funny thing, this “negativity,” which is so bad that…
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AFP editor Chris Graham will be a guest on WREL-1450AM’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan” this morning at 11 a.m. as he is every Tuesday to talk Virginia sports. Later today, we’ll be at the Target in Waynesboro for a Christmas shopping trip with 25 needy kids. And there might be a surprise or two to…
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The latest attempt of a Virginia woman to have the United States Supreme Court overrule a series of rulings in a long-running custody dispute involving her former domestic partner failed Monday. The Supreme Court let stand the lower-court rulings that recognized that a Vermont court has jurisdiction in the case involving custody of a child…
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And the winner is … Brian Moran. OK, so he’s the leader on his way to the first tee. Moran is the only one of the three candidates for the ’09 Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination who would beat presumptive Republican nominee Bob McDonnell in a head-to-head matchup, according to a poll released today by Rasmussen…
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It’s official – Al Groh is staying on at the helm of the UVa. football program, and his son Mike is among those being flung to the wolves as part of an internal housecleaning.
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Virginia Tech is going Orange Bowling again. The Hokies 30-12 victory over Boston College in Saturday’s ACC Championship Game earned them a return invite to the Orange Bowl to face Big East champion Cincinnati, which will be making its first-ever BCS bowl appearance.
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CavsCorner.com is reporting that offensive coordinator Mike Groh and two fellow assistants will not be returning to the staff of University of Virginia football coach Al Groh next season. Defensive line coach Levern Belin and secondary coach Steve Bernstein are also leaving in the wake of a disappointing 5-7 ’08 season in Charlottesville that ended…
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The News Virginian is reporting this afternoon that a Houston-based industrial-services contractor is laying off 132 of its contract employees working at the Invista plant in Waynesboro, representing about 13 percent of the overall workforce at the former DuPont plant.
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