WHS grad Gore leads VMI to hoops win

Chris Graham

Staff Report Waynesboro High School alum Nick Gore scored 20 points and eight rebounds to lead six Keydets in double figures in VMI’s 111-92 win over West Virginia Wesleyan Wednesday at Cameron Hall in Lexington. Three records fell in Wednesday’s game, as the Keydets attempted 63 three-pointers on the night, setting a new school record…

One cool cat

Chris Graham

That Richard Adams fellow does it all Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s hard to imagine Richard Adams stifled. Or without a gig. But Adams, who you can see several nights a week in Staunton and Waynesboro playing Shenandoah Pizza or the “River City Radio Hour” or doing local community theater, felt stifled by what was…

AFP InDepth | A ‘strategic quiet’ on the LGBT front

Chris Graham

You don’t need to go as far as gay marriage. A candidate can win the support of the LGBT community by advocating legislation that would allow employees to include gay and lesbian partners in group life-insurance policies. Indeed, it doesn’t take much to break through what Jay Fisette, the Arlington County Board of Supervisors member…

The Pulse | Silly season going on largely outside public view

Chris Graham

That’s what I call the part to an election cycle where we have the debates and the candidate endorsement interviews. I refer to it as the silly season because, well, to be honest, I just don’t see the value to the hand-wringing that goes on with debates and endorsements, on all sides. Which isn’t to…

Book dives into local WWII history

Chris Graham

A forgotten chapter in Valley history and a prominent local military school play central roles in a new book by novelist Elizabeth Tidwell. Device and Deceit is a historical-fiction thriller set in the Waynesboro area during World War II and involves a German scientist being held at a prisoner of war camp near Sherando Lake…

AFP InDepth | Synthetic-turf field of dreams

Chris Graham

If you build it, they will come. “Imagine what this would do for kids in Waynesboro,” Waynesboro High School football coach Steve Isaacs tells me, going into detail on his vision for a new synthetic-turf athletic field at the city high school. “Kids would grow up wanting to play on that field,” Isaacs said. “Football,…