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Story by Chris Graham The camera is trained on Tracy Pyles. It is Sept. 19, 2001, and Pyles, a Democrat and five-year veteran of the Augusta County Board of Supervisors, is preparing for a candidate debate with Republican Chris Saxman. Pyles and Saxman are locked in a battle for the newly created 20th House District…
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Story by Chris Graham Candidates for the Riverheads District seat on the Augusta County Board of Supervisors hear the question every day. What do you think we should do to preserve our agricultural heritage here in Augusta County?
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Story by Chris Graham The six candidates vying for the soon-to-be-open Waynesboro circuit-court clerk job agree on … just about everything. None would institute major changes in the way the office is being run; all would stress customer service as a top priority; and all hope the voters of Waynesboro turn out to the polls…
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Story by Chris Graham Candidates for the six of the seven seats on the Augusta County Board of Supervisors that are up for election on Nov. 4 took part in a candidates forum held at Verona Elementary School Thursday night. The forum, sponsored by the Augusta Community Partnership, focused on issues related to agriculture and…
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Story by Chris Graham Waynesboro city leaders concluded their first-ever visioning session on Saturday with a clear direction of where they want to see the city go over the course of the next 20 years. The next step is to put what they spent the better part of three days talking about into a formalized…
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Story by Chris Graham This time last year, Gov. Mark Warner was working with state-agency heads to figure out how to chop hundreds of millions of dollars from the biennial state budget to account for an expected revenue shortfall. This year, the governor and state leaders are busy trying to make sure that Hurricane Isabel…
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Compiled by Chris Graham Tim Spears was surveying the damage wrought by the South River on his downtown-Waynesboro music store Friday afternoon. “It could’ve been a lot worse,” said Spears, owner of Tim Spears’ Music City – which is located just a city block away from the South River. Spears estimated the damage to his…
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Story by Chris Graham Depending on whom you believe, Hurricane Isabel is either going to enter and then leave Western Virginia like a lion – or like a lamb. Weather forecasters are offering predictions that rainfall amounts in the Shenandoah Valley associated with the powerful storm – which is on track to make landfall in…
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Story by Chris Graham Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce executive director Ben Carter was thinking of Hurricane Camille on Tuesday. Many locals do look back at Camille whenever the region is in the crosshairs of a hurricane – as is the case right now with Isabel making a beeline for Western Virginia. But Carter…
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Story by Chris Graham Hurricane Isabel could drop as much as 15 inches of rain on the Greater Augusta County area on Thursday. Double-digit rain totals are likely if the storm continues on its current track, Virginia state climatologist Patrick Michael told The Augusta Free Press on Monday.
