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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.
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Column by Chris Graham The Virginia Department of Transportation is staring down the barrel of a $6 billion gun with regard to improvements that need to be made to Interstate 81. And the transportation folks are working with two private outfits – Fluor Virginia and Star Solutions – to look at how the project might…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Three years ago this month, I did just about the stupidest thing I think I could have ever done in my life. I proposed to my wife. Wait a second. That didn’t come out right. (I’m in the doghouse, big time, and I’m what? Like, 50 words into…
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The September 11 attacks on America brought down two pillars of the New York community, the World Trade Center towers. The towers were something that all Americans looked at as symbols of strength, power and freedom. On September 17, a pillar of another community – a lesser-known town, Owatonna, Minn. – also fell.
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