A new virtual home for the Generals
The Waynesboro Generals have a new home online thanks to the efforts of Augusta Free Press LLC.
The new and improved www.WaynesboroGenerals.net features a fresh look and easy navigation to information about how to spend a night at the ballpark with the Valley League team.
Ticket information, directions to Kate Collins Field, an interactive online schedule and details about sponsors and on-field promotions highlight the website. Read more
AFP launches new website for Harrisonburg Turks
The Harrisonburg Turks have a new web presence with the assistance of Augusta Free Press LLC.
AFP built a new custom website for the Turks that is now live at www.HarrisonburgTurks.com.
The site features a fresh homepage that puts the spotlight on the latest news involving the Valley Baseball League team and a new stats section that will pull up-to-the-minute scores and statistics from the Valley League website.
Learn more about Augusta Free Press web and marketing services at www.AFPBusiness.com.
Wrestling show at WHS benefits St. Jude’s
A trio of former world champions – Matt Hardy, Diamond Dallas Page and Ricky Morton – will headline an exciting night of pro-wrestling action at Waynesboro High School tonight.
The LTW Entertainment show is a benefit for the St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.
Tickets are $15 for floor seats and $10 for general admission. Belltime is 8 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m., and tickets are available at the door.
Hardy, a former ECW world heavyweight champion, will take on another former ECW superstar, Christian York, in the main event.
Morton, a former eight-time NWA world tag-team champion as a member of The Rock-n-Roll Express, takes on Gregory Vercitti in a return match. Read more
Rogers named Class of 2012 valedictorian
Derek Rogers arrived at Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro in 2009 as a high-school sophomore in need of some direction.
“My attitude and my grades were horrible,” said Rogers, a native of Richmond who is leaving Fishburne this weekend as the Class of 2012 valedictorian.
The focus and discipline that is the focus of life at Fishburne, a 130-cadet all-boys private school founded in 1879, were keys to Rogers’ eventual success.
And that success, as it came in the classroom and on the drill field, started to feed on itself. Read more
Chandler Bryant: A Summer School Success Story
Chandler Bryant was struggling through his freshman year in high school in Virginia Beach when his parents came to him with an idea.
Let’s send you to summer school at Fishburne.
“My grades were slipping a little bit, and my parents decided, Hey, how about we just send you here? It would be a good place, a good experience. So I was, like, alright. I was on the bandwagon,” said Bryant, who had such a good experience with the five-week summer-school session last summer that he decided to stay on at Fishburne for his sophomore year. Read more
AFP creates new TV ads for WTA’s Gateway
Augusta Free Press has created a series of TV spots for the Wayne Theatre Alliance’s Gateway Theatre that will begin running next week locally on Comcast.
The spots promote upcoming shows at the Gateway. The first three spots in the series promote shows for the weeks of May 14, May 21 and May 28.
More information on programming at the Gateway Theatre is online at www.WTAGateway.com.
Fishburne Military School contracts with AFP
Augusta Free Press will continue an ongoing relationship with Fishburne Military School to provide web and marketing services to the Waynesboro-based prep school in the 2012-2013 school year.
In addition to building upon the school news website, www.FishburneTimesConnect.org, that AFP built for FMS in the 2011-2012 school year, Augusta Free Press will produce monthly in-depth marketing pieces highlighting students, faculty, administration and programs at Fishburne using the web, digital magazine publishing and video.
