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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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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] I ran out of gas once – about 12 years ago. And let me tell you, it was no fun. The number of us having this kind of no-fun has more than doubled this year, according to numbers from the Allstate Motor Club, which reports that the number of Virginians…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Less of us Virginia types will be traveling long distances this Fourth of July holiday. Big surprise, right, given gas prices topping out around $4 a gallon? “Fewer Virginians will be traveling this July 4th holiday due to soaring gas prices, higher airfares coupled with fewer flights and seats, and…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A $3,000 grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts will help the show go on at “The River City Radio Hour.” The grant announcement was made June 20. The commission praised director Clair Myers, also the executive director of the Wayne Theatre Alliance, for the “Radio Hour”‘s use of…
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