art in the park

Local students, teacher recognized for youth traffic-safety efforts

Members of the Stuarts Draft High School SADD Club (Students Against Destructive Decisions) and their sponsor, Martha Mikell, were honored with several traffic safety awards at the 2011 Youth of Virginia Speak Out About Traffic Safety Awards Program on July 28 in Bridgewater. The YOVASO Awards Banquet, held at Bridgewater College, recognized organizations, individuals, and [...]

Posted August 8, 2011  

DCCU recognizes local scholarship winners

DuPont Community Credit Union recently announced the 20 scholarship winners at the 52nd Annual Membership Meeting. Since beginning the scholarship program over $172,000 has been awarded to high school seniors, and 180 seniors applied this year. “We are very pleased to provide scholarships to this year’s 20 recipients,” said Everett J. Campbell, chairman of the [...]

Posted May 5, 2011  

SDHS student wins AAA poster contest

A poster created by Dylan Bozic, a student of Stuarts Draft High School, has been recognized by AAA Mid-Atlantic for earning first place in its Annual Traffic Safety Poster Contest. Dylan was awarded first place in the High School (9-12) division covering the subject of Teen Driving. Dylan’s artwork was selected by AAA Mid-Atlantic from [...]

Posted April 12, 2011  

West Side Story at Stuarts Draft: ‘Aren’t you guys crazy?’

We have all heard the story of Romeo and Juliet, either through the original story or through the hundreds of adaptations. We know the characters, the star-crossed lovers, the polarized families, the hate, the passion, the tragedy. The fact that we already know this, and expect what was originally unexpected, makes it seemingly hard to [...]

Posted March 7, 2011  

Stuarts Draft High School to present West Side Story

The drama and choral departments at Stuarts Draft High School will present West Side Story March 3-6. The story takes Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to New York City as two young idealistic lovers find themselves caught between warring street gangs, the American Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks. The SDHS production features a cast comprised [...]

Posted February 22, 2011  

Grant awarded for study of decline of bobwhite quail

Emmett Toms of Dominion Power recently presented a grant awarded to the Valley Alliance for Education for Darrell Steege’s project, “Bobwhite Quail Restoration Conservation Project.” Stuarts Draft High School students will be working on this project, which will examine the role that land use has played in the decline of the bobwhite quail locally.

Posted November 29, 2010  

‘Our Town’ at SDHS

Stuarts Draft High School will be presenting the production of “Our Town” written by Thornton Wilder Nov. 18-20 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 21 at 2 p.m. Tickets will be $5 for adults and $3 for students, and can be purchased at the door. Concessions will be available during intermission. “Our Town” shows how life [...]

Posted November 15, 2010  

BBQ & Bluegrass: Sending SDHS drama students to Scotland

The Stuarts Draft High School Drama Team is headed for Scotland. The team has been selected as one of only 50 high schools across the entire United States and Canada to receive an invitation to perform at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, the world’s largest performing arts festival. Students will spend two days exploring London [...]

Posted November 4, 2010  

Generals give back to local high-school baseball programs

Edited by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net   The Waynesboro Generals have made contributions to the high-school baseball programs at Waynesboro, Wilson Memorial and Stuarts Draft as part of an ongoing commitment to benefit local youth baseball.   WaynesboroGenerals.com has the story.

Posted May 14, 2010