Supervisor Tracy Pyles has chafed at Augusta County’s reassessment since learning last fall that values would increase dramatically.

Like other forms of abuse, cold slaps first startle, then rile.

A new year dawns in shadows.

Having served for almost six months as Waynesboro mayor, a distinction most parts ceremonial, Tim Williams has distinguished himself in ways that his friends wish he had not.

As the economy heaves, causes to give thanks persist, including a fact Americans can be forgiven for neglecting but one that evinces itself as crucial in the current hour: This is not Iceland.

Amid the economy’s floundering, several members of the Waynesboro City Council are contemplating economics of a more personal sort.

As the Dow swings and the economy bends to the point of breaking, Augusta County property owners contemplate the next slap, notices of reassessment, which could send their tax bills soaring by a third or more.