Alcohol sales
      It has always been a struggle for the Waynesboro City Council to deal with regulations governing the sale of alcohol. For example, though Waynesboro voters approved the sale of liquor by the drink in November of 2003, it was almost a full year before the council was able to agree on an ordinance p...
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RFD
By Bonnie K. Taylor General Manager The True Citizen
      Mark you calendars for the Waynesboro Shrine Club Farm Fest 2007 set for Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Southern Bank Complex and Pavilion at the corner of Liberty and Ninth streets in Waynesboro. Racks by the Tracks, an amateur cook-off, craft and vendors show and parade will be held in conjunction...
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Looking Back
      10 years ago: July 30, 1997 The Georgia Department of Transportation said that the exact route of the Highway 25 widening project would be determined by the outcome of environmental impact studies. The Waynesboro Exchange Club and the Bank of Burke County each donated $10,000 to the fund for th...
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SAVE NORTHSIDE
Steven Rice
      I miss Northside Junior High School. I really do. I drove by several months ago when I was "back home" and looked in horror at the weeds and silence that comes with abandonment. No one asked me, but apparently the school district is relocating the students to a newer facility across town.
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THIS IS A JOKE, RIGHT?
Bill Shipp
      Neely Young writes a solid, straightforward column for Georgia Trend magazine. However, the publisher-writer omitted the last paragraph from his current monthly essay, so I will obligingly fill it in. The last lines should read: "My column this month is a joke. I just thought we needed a few lau...
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Dixie Divas
PETTY ISN'T PRETTY
      You probably know someone like him. Undoubtedly, you have encountered a villain-like character that connives from a personaagendathatis often vindictive and petty. It happened to me on a non-profieventthatI had reluctantly agreed to help.
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IT'S ALL SUSHI TO ME
Lucy Adams
      Every order of sushi should come with a barf bag tucked discreetly beneath the plate. This idea struck me dead in the gut the night my husband pestered me to try a gelatinous foreign body plopped across a sticky rectangle of rice.
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