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A slice of downtown: Inside River City Art and Wine

Downtown Waynesboro has many cute little shops to offer tourists and locals alike. River City Art and Wine Emporium is in a class all of its own. Opened in 2008, the shop was originally started to fulfill a longtime dream of proprietor Eileen O’Rourke. She hoped to open a shop that would sell her excellent [...]

Posted August 12, 2011  

Pro wrestling comes to Main Street

Awesome Wrestling Entertainment has opened its East Coast corporate headquarters in a location in Downtown Waynesboro. The company, which stages live-event pro-wrestling shows across the United States, has set up its East Coast office at 421 W. Main St., Waynesboro. “This is a big step for us as a company,” said CEO Marvin Ward, who [...]

Posted August 9, 2011  

Radio Hour returns for fifth season

The River City Radio Hour returns to WTA’s Gateway for its first production of the fifth Season on August 19. The 6:30 and 8:00 pm performances will the Boogie Kings, Marsha Howard, Fritz Horst, and Chapter One of the new Night Hawk serial: Night Hawk and Murder Down On the Farm by Bob Crawford. The [...]

Posted August 9, 2011  

Hearing on CDBG grant application set for City Council meeting

Waynesboro City Council is holding a public hearing on Monday night on a proposed application for a Community Development Block Grant to fund downtown improvements. The effort to build an application for submission for the grant has been led by the city, Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. and the Waynesboro Redevelopment and Housing Authority. In spring [...]

Posted March 25, 2011  

Chris Graham: Neat project features Downtown Waynesboro

Deborah Henshaw had this neat idea – to film a series of commercials featuring what a lot of us think is neat about Downtown Waynesboro and put them up on YouTube for the world to see. My two cents to the effort became VirtualWaynesboro.com, a web portal that we donated to the guerilla marketing effort [...]

Posted March 21, 2011  


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