Search for Economic Development Director narrows to 2

Waynesboro’s ‘Wall of Shame’ continues to mar downtown as officials, merchants work to dissolve the decades-old barrier.

Developers say finding tenants could be a problem

10 business owners challenge City Council to fix ‘eyesore’

Astronomers say that somewhere in the great beyond is a great void the breadth of which measures almost 1 billion light years and the existence of which scientific theory cannot explain. In another realm, in that strange place outside our door, there are voids which logic cannot explain. Politics, through which light seldom travels, perhaps provides answers, all of them cavernous and unsatisfying.

Though Staunton is required by the state to put forth an “irrevocable pledge” of $15 million to sign a development agreement for 266 acres of the current Western State Hospital campus, city Finance Director Jeanne Colvin told the City Council at its Thursday meeting that last-minute talks with attorneys could mean the city would not have to put forth any money up front.

The 2009-10 budget is finally in place. The citizens of Waynesboro now know the City Council represents no one, except maybe city employees.

Waynesboro takes steps toward making roads ‘bicycle-friendly’

Rift arises among Waynesboro’s conservative bloc

As time goes about healing wounds, the City Council’s so-called Three Amigos brandish pleasant public faces. This is a product of necessity: Majorities require their constituent parts to remain whole. But whatever the fellas might say when notebooks are open and tapes are rolling, this is plainly not the same trio who assumed power, and apparently other things, a year ago this morning.

Elephants evicted from landfill site on city concerns

Saxman praises Western State Hospital project announcement

Heritage Museum funds restored, 1 furlough day eliminated

The Waynesboro City Council agreed during a Wednesday work session to eliminate one of the two furlough days that city employees were to receive in City Manager Mike Hamp’s proposed fiscal year 2010 budget.

Proposed furlough days could be eliminated