VDOT easing Memorial Day weekend travel with lane reopenings
The Virginia Department of Transportation will help ease Memorial Day holiday weekend travel by opening lanes temporarily closed for construction or maintenance work on major roadways. Read more
Battlefields Foundation announces grants
From new interpretive exhibits to wayside signage, trails, and brochures, the Valley’s Civil War story will become increasingly available to the general public as a result of this year’s round of grants awarded by the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation’s Implementation Grants Program. Grants to support strong management projects at other sites will ensure that the story will be available to future generations as well. Read more
Baseball braggin’ rights on the line
The Waynesboro Generals begin regular-season Valley League play two weeks from Friday night. But the Generals will take to the field two nights earlier to fight for some Greater Augusta braggin’ rights.
The Generals will play host to the Stuarts Draft Diamondbacks of the Rockingham County Baseball League Wednesday, June 3, at 7 p.m. at Kate Collins Field. The game will follow a Meet the Teams event that will begin at 4:30 p.m. at KCMS. Read more
Carly at the Movies | Are you out of your Vulcan mind?
The brand new version of “Star Trek,” playing at every theater in the universe (except one little theater on the ninth moon of Saturn) turns out to be a big thrill for Trek fans and for everyone else – well, maybe they’re not sure where they went, but it was an exciting ride. Read more
Memorial Day weekend at Wintergreen
Wintergreen Resort an 11,000-acre, four-season resort located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, is kicking off the summer season, Memorial Day weekend, with three days full of fun for the entire family, May 22-25. Arrive on Friday and stay busy, energized and entertained through Monday! Read more
Annual Beer and Wine Festival on tap in The ‘Burg this weekend
ValleyFest, the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce’s ninth annual Beer and Wine Festival, returns this on year on Saturday, May 23, at Massanutten Resort. Known for showcasing Virginia’s finest wineries, microbreweries, and a variety of domestic, craft, and import beers, ValleyFest is a day-long festival with something for everyone. Read more
In the News
- Health News: VCU doc working on innovative treatment for brain aneurysms
- Local News: Water quality in South River focus of DEQ meeting in Waynesboro
- Local News: Berkeley Glenn student wins three-month free pass to Waynesboro YMCA Read more
UVa. football season tickets on sale
Season tickets for the 2009 Virginia football home games are available to the general public and the University’s faculty and staff. The Cavaliers’ seven-game home schedule includes dates with William & Mary (Sept. 5), TCU (Sept. 12), Indiana (Oct. 10), Georgia Tech (Oct. 24), Duke (Oct. 31), Boston College (Nov. 14) and Virginia Tech (Nov. 28). Read more
It started with her saving the elephants
Malone Moss wants the city to Save the Elephants – you know, the fiberglass elephants that Mark Cline put up on the old landfill hill a month and a half ago. So she wrote to her city councilman, Bruce Allen. “I am a citizen of the city and find the decision to let Mark Cline’s elephants be placed on the mountain one of the most refreshing decisions that the Council has deliberated,” Moss wrote to Allen. “It is my understanding that Waynesboro wants to become a destination city, and I believe keeping the elephants on the mountain might just start something great.” Read more
A better place to live
Our friends at the Waynesboro Taxpayer Alliance are out there once again trying to rouse a backbreaking tax increase out of the mixed bag that was the 2009 property reassessment in Waynesboro.
Mike Harris, who you might remember as the 830 S. Ellison Lane homeowner whose property assessment and taxes are actually decreasing as a result of the ’09 reassessment, pulled in his second Taxpayers Alliance e-mail what on the surface appeared to be a pretty telling story out of a couple of hours of research done on the Virginia Mass Appraisal Network website on assessed values on Charlotte Avenue, chosen we can presume as being emblematic of the working-class part of Waynesboro. Read more
Kent Willis | Remembering Jack Kemp for another passion: Voter-restoration reform in Virginia
Much has been written about Jack Kemp since his passing a couple of weeks ago. Kemp was a former football star turned congressman who served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the first President Bush and was the 1996 Republican vice-presidential nominee. He was a pragmatist who became well known for reaching across party lines to get things done and, in particular, for his passionate efforts to include more people of color in the Republican Party. Read more
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Mark Warner | Protecting consumers from fraud, credit card abuses
Posted on May 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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