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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham “When can we go back in the river?” my niece Hannah asked me. Or maybe it was her twin sister, Rachel. It was one of them. Anyway, we weren’t anywhere near a river at the time the question was posed. Instead, we were at the beach –…
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Will Goodlatte run alone in November? Story by Chris Graham David Layman isn’t giving up on the idea that Sixth District Democrats will be able to field a challenger to Republican Congressman Bob Goodlatte this fall – but it’s safe to say that the prospects of that happening are not looking good at this point….
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham “The question that I’ve been getting is, Is the best man still married? Or did his wife end up leaving him after that toast that he made?” My best friend from college, Jay, got married last month – and given that he was my best friend, and more…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham “This is fun … I’m sitting in a bowl of soup.” This was my feeling this weekend when my shower went on the fritz. Except for the occasional relaxation soak, I hadn’t taken a serious bath in, well, forever. I know why now.
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Story by Chris Graham Residents of Waynesboro’s West End have been asking the question for 20 years now. Where is that fire station that you promised us? The answer is not what they have been wanting to hear. “We’re going to eventually need a West End fire station. The biggest problem is budgetary,” Ward C…
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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] We plebeians descended on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club like a Mongolian horde. One of the perks of volunteering at the President’s Cup last fall was playing a round of golf at the stomping ground of the elite, so we charged the gates, ready for our…
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Story by Chris Graham Matt Hyson appears to be on a path to reuniting with his brothers in TNA – though he isn’t confirming or denying published reports to that effect. “We’ll have to wait and see on that,” said Hyson, known to wrestling fans as Little Spike Dudley, who teamed with The Dudley Boyz…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham It has been seven months since Waynesboro City Council decided against acting on a proposal from the Wayne Theatre Alliance to have the city participate in a public-private project to renovate the 1926 downtown landmark. You’d think from listening to the rhetoric in this spring’s city-council elections that…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham One problem that Waynesboro has with regard to its plans for revitalizing its downtown-business district is “the fact that we don’t have buildings,” downtown businessman Len Poulin said. “But as I like to say, the biggest advantage that we have in rebuilding downtown is that we don’t have…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Economic-development issues promise to dominate the discussions among the candidates for the two open seats on Waynesboro City Council leading up to the May city elections. That is, if incumbent Ward D councilman Reo Hatfield has his way. “I have to believe that people can just look around…
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