Payoffs for taxpayers are rare. Waynesboro’s get one starting tonight, and there is sufficient cause for hope that it will be the first of many.

The Waynesboro City Council needs to cut around $600,000 from next year’s proposed budget, and it will have the weekend to ponder possibilities that City Manager Doug Walker will give to them.

Letters to the editor The following are my observations of the May 6 election:

Twelve minutes, one speaker and it was all over.

The man who changed the face of the City Council began guiding his pickup truck through Waynesboro at 6 a.m. Wednesday, retrieving the signs of his success.

Election Day drew waves of concerned Waynesboro residents to the polls. Most were adverse to a tax hike.

After the thousands of dollars spent on mailings; signs; ads in print, online and on-air; multiple forums; and door-to-door campaigning filled with promises, the hard part – doing the work entrusted upon them by the city’s voters – begins.

Fiscal conservative Frank Lucente, considered a lightning rod on the Waynesboro City Council since he was appointed three years ago, staved off two more moderate challengers for the at-large seat Tuesday in a decisive victory.

Bruce Allen savored an overwhelming victory in the Ward B race that turned the tide on the Waynesboro City Council.

The Waynesboro City Council meets this evening for a budget work session at 6 p.m. in the council chambers of the Charles T. Yancey Municipal Building at 503 West Main Street.

Two of the three at-large candidates for the Waynesboro City Council are engaged in election-eve letter-writing campaigns disputing each other’s positions on the capital improvement plan.

The Waynesboro City Council will meet this evening at 7 p.m. in the council chambers of the Charles T. Yancey Municipal Building at 503 West Main Street.

The Waynesboro City Council will meet Monday, April 28 at 7 p.m. in the council chambers of the Charles T. Yancey Municipal Building at 503 West Main Stree

The News Virginian and NBC29 are co-sponsoring a City Council candidates forum tonight at the Kate Collins Middle School auditorium.