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School Board chairman to talk redistricting at tonight’s meeting Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Tonight’s Waynesboro School Board meeting could lead to an interesting turn in the discussions of a controversial proposal to overhaul elementary education in the River City. I talked this morning with School Board Chairman Jeremy Taylor, who told me that he…
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Video Essay by Chris Graham [email protected] The Waynesboro School Board appears to be on the path to getting it right on the proposed paradigm shift in elementary education. Here’s what getting it right means – putting the proposal on the table for the 2010-2011 school year. The prescription for getting it right, editor Chris…
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Waynesboro reacts to proposed reconfiguration of city elementary schools Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Westwood Hills to William Perry, then back to Westwood Hills. Two transitions in two years. That’s what Liz Barnes is facing for her son, Josh. “I’m not in the PTO, I’m not as much in the loop as I’d like to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Michael Harris announced yesterday that he will be challenging incumbent Ward D Waynesboro City Councilwoman Lorie Smith in the May 2010 city elections. Harris, 62, made the announcement in front of a group of supporters in the Waynesboro City Council chambers Wednesday morning.
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Story by Chris Graham With AFP Video A campaign website to rival that of any statewide candidate. A ground operation that pledges to knock on thousands of doors and make as many phone calls. Lorie Smith is ready for May 2010. “I feel so strongly about the message that I carry, and I feel so…
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Story by Chris Graham Tim Williams is young for a city mayor at 43. But Williams, entering his second year as mayor of Waynesboro, has nine years of experience in city government under his belt dating back to his term on the Waynesboro School Board. That makes him the grizzled veteran of the young mayors…
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We’re a couple of hours away from our Big Mac Attack, and we have some good news to mark the occasion. The Waynesboro School Board didn’t bow to the pressure being applied by Vice Mayor Frank Lucente and his friends in the local media to cut its 2009-2010 budget $600,000 to accommodate Lucente’s push to…
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I didn’t know Louie Hausrath all that well. Actually, on second thought … I first knew his daughter, Beth, back when I was in the second grade at Crimora Elementary School. “I taught you how to write,” the woman whom I still feel compelled to think of and refer to as Miss Hausrath tells me…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Greater Augusta pediatrician Bob Gunther has been selected to participate in the 2008-2009 class of the Medical Society of Virginia Foundation’s Claude Moore Physician Leadership Institute.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I’ve never seen Tim Williams nervous. I mean, he sings in front of large crowds, he benchpresses 300 pounds in the gym, and the guy doesn’t flinch. I don’t know that he was terribly nervous today, except that the usually stoic and reserved Williams was working the room before the…
