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Column by Kathleen Rogers Submit guest columns: [email protected] Climate change is a critical issue in the 21st century, and as we observe Women’s History Month we should bear in mind the effect of the environment on women. Women make up the majority of the earth’s population, and are most vulnerable to changes in climate…
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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] I’m sitting here in the waiting room . . . waiting. I’m not good at doing this, especially if I reflect too long and hard on reasons for my waiting in the first place. My 32 teeth – give or take a few – those amazing…
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Column by J.R. Tolbert Submit guest columns: [email protected] Forty years ago, nearly 20 million Americans participated in what was the beginning of the modern environmental movement. Inspired by Sen. Gaylord Nelson after witnessing an oil spill off California’s coast, Earth Day was started to spotlight issues related to environmental degradation and the need to…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro City Council will meet tonight at 7 p.m. at the Charles T. Yancey Municipal Building, 503 W. Main St., Waynesboro, for a regularly-scheduled business meeting.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello is facing a full-court press from the Republicans gunning for the chance to knock him off in November. The press might work better if the GOP’ers weren’t trying at the same time to steal the ball from each other. “My opponent Jim McKelvey put…
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Submitted Item News tips: [email protected] Thomas Sheffer, a Mount Sidney resident and graduate student at Virginia Tech, will run in the National Marathon in Washington, D.C., March 20, to raise money for the nonprofit organization Active Minds Inc. His run will be made in honor of his brother, Daniel, who passed away in December 2008….
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Column by Austin Gisriel Submit guest columns: [email protected] With our record snow now melting, local golf courses will soon be dotted with duffers everywhere. My only question is: Why? The problem with golf is that the fun is fleeting, but the aggravation is permanent. Golfers talk about the need to work on your game,…
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Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro was once the envy of Western Virginia for its manufacturing economy. As recently as 1990, almost half of the city’s workforce was employed in manufacturing, whose rate of pay has traditionally been at least 40 percent and some years approaching 50 percent higher than the median income…
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Report by Chris Graham [email protected] “The budget for each department would have a starting point of zero, and then you start with your essential needs, paper, electricity, water, labor, as an example.” That was Ward D candidate Mike Harris, as quoted in a NewsVirginian.com story reporting on Harris’ proposal on Wednesday to have the…
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Report by Chris Graham [email protected] Seven. Straight. Losses. The UVa. fan base didn’t enter the 2009-2010 season with anything in the way of expectations. The Cavs were picked to finish 12th in the 12-team Atlantic Coast Conference, and that seemed about right for a group that stunk up the junk enough in 2008-2009 to get…
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