Hope for Revival
      The First National Bank of Waynesboro recently purchased several lots on West Sixth Street with plans to demolish existing dilapidated structures and beautify the property.
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Looking Back
      10 years ago: April 22, 1998 The cost for a new 16-inch water line that would surround the perimeter of the City of Waynesboro was estimated at $1.2 million. Burke County Commissioner Frank Williams recommended that a member of the commission be appointed to the Burke County Development Author...
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RFD
By Bonnie K. Taylor General Manager The True Citizen
      I thought I had heard it all for the number of excuses of being late for work, not coming into work, late columns. Many have been legitimate. Some have been down right ridiculous and so unbelievable that the truth was a much better excuse.
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Steven Rice
WENT TO THE MASTERS
      Late one recent Tuesday night my phone rang. "Hello?" I asked. "Do you want to go to the Masters?" a raspy voice responded in whispered tones. "I do!" I exclaimed. "Meet me under the bridge in Midville in one hour. And come alone," the voice said before the line went dead.
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Bill Shipp
THE WHITE HAT SYNDROME
      As former state Attorney General Mike Bowers used to say, "Dirt shows up more on a white hat." State Transportation Commissioner Gena Abraham and those who have placed their own credibility on the line by backing her may soon be schooled in this hard-to-remember Bowers lesson:
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Marshall Singletary
GOODBYE, YOU RASCAL, YOU
      I can't beat Steve Rice at anything! Because of him, I am the second funniest man around. You may recall that Steve won First Prize, and I won second. He is an excellent preacher as well. In fact, Margaret slipped away from our congregation this week in order to hear him preach.
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Dixie Divas
WHO IS THE LUCKY ONE?
      If you met my cousin, Melissa, you'd like her immediately. You'd be captivated by her porcelain perfect complexion and straight, even teeth. She possesses an enviable lithe, slender body, which is standard loveliness on that side of my family but somehow chose to orphan me.
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Other Voices
ENTERTAINMENT IN A SMALL TOWN
By F. Leslie Jenkins Burke Banter Boy
      Many of the younger folks I know often ask me what we did for entertainment in Sardis in the "Olden Days." They remind me that we had no television back then, not even a movie theater - and not only that, in the midst of the "Great Depression" people had little money to use for entertainment.
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