Davis to head up state police-chief group

Chris Graham

Waynesboro Police Chief Douglas Davis was sworn in as president of the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police on Tuesday during the annual VACP conference held this week in Reston. Davis serves on the association’s Training Committee and Virginia Highway Safety Committee. He is a graduate of the Virginia Police Chiefs Foundation’s Professional Executive Leadership…

VAE honors area’s teachers of the year

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The Valley Alliance for Education 2010 Annual Reception was held last night at Robert Plecker Workforce Center at Blue Ridge Community College in Weyers Cave. The annual reception is held each year to honor grant winners as well as teacher of the year for Staunton, Augusta County and Waynesboro Public Schools. The audience that was…

Council presents annual regional EMS awards

Chris Graham

Seven individuals, one regional emergency medical services agency and the local-government administration in Rockbridge County received awards from the Central Shenandoah Regional EMS Council at an awards ceremony held on Wednesday at the Grand Caverns Park in Augusta County. “The award winners and all of the nominees for each category are outstanding representatives of our…

Tax and spend

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Streamlining effort could raise revenues, but at the cost of jobs Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected]   The state of Virginia is losing as much as $400 million a year to uncollected taxes from Internet retailers. Streamlining a process for collecting them isn’t as easy as some would like to make it out to…

Music and comedy at the May River City Radio Hour

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   The River City Radio Hour performances on Friday will be an eclectic mix of musical and comedy talents. The Boogie Kings, led by Richard Adams with William Hayes on keyboard and J.T. Fauber on percussion, will head the musical entertainment. Joining the popular Radio Hour band will be Bill…

The Road to 2012

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Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected]   Waynesboro didn’t go poof! into the night. There aren’t tumbleweeds running through downtown. (Not yet.) The sun did in fact come up this morning. That’s in spite of another electoral defeat for progressives at the polls in the City Council elections on May 4. Lorie Smith fell short…

The better budget approach: Zero-based, or results-based?

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected]   Mike Harris has tried to seize the momentum in the marquee race in the upcoming May 4 local elections with a proposal that revolutionized government budgeting 40 years ago. It’s called the zero-based budget, and the idea is that budget writers start their work on fiscal plans with the…