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Green Drinks in Waynesboro

Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. and the Staunton Creative Community Fund are co-sponsoring a Green Drinks event at The Hot Spot, 901 W. Broad St., Willow Oak Plaza, on Wednesday, Dec. 12, at 5:30 p.m.


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Local projects win state tourism grants

The Virginia Tourism Corporation will award matching grant funds in the amount of more than $660,000 to 45 local tourism initiatives as part of VTC’s Marketing Leverage Grant program


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$10K Dominion grant to assist Coldwaters project

Emmett Toms of Dominion Virginia Power presents a $10,000 donation to Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc.’s Executive Director Kimberly Watters and Center for Coldwaters Restoration intern Chelsea Swain


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Boom, boom, boom! Chili, Blues n’ Brews Festival announces 2012 lineup featuring Hooker

Other folks might throw a party … but we are the party! “Bigger and better. That’s the only way to describe this year’s event,” said Terry Short Jr., the organizer of the Virginia Chili, Blues n’ Brews Festival, which is back for a sixth year in Lumos Plaza in Downtown Waynesboro with a Saturday, Sept. 22 event


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AFP debuts new website for festival

Chris Graham and Crystal Graham from AFP worked with event organizer Terry Short on the development of the site, which includes detailed information on the festival’s lineup of food, music and brews and e-commerce features making it easy for online visitors to buy tickets


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AFP handling sponsorship sales for Chili, Blues n’ Brews

Augusta Free Press LLC is in charge of sponsorship sales for the 2012 Chili, Blues n’ Brews Festival, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 22, in Downtown Waynesboro. The sixth annual festival features a performance by Grammy-nominated blues artist John Lee Hooker Jr. and a chili cook-off


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New website features downtown improvements

A new website developed by Augusta Free Press LLC for is your one-stop shop for news and detailed information on the ongoing downtown-improvement project in Waynesboro


Crystal Graham: Join AFP at Taste of the Town

I got a feeling Jonathan Hunley does not know what I’m talking about. My friend Teresa and I have been busy prepping for the Taste of the Town benefit for WDDI on Tuesday night. We’ve been up to our elbows in garlic, onions, jalepeno peppers and green peppers for most of the morning. I even [...]


AFP taking part in Taste of the Town

Augusta Free Press vice president Crystal Graham will square off with News Virginian editor/general manager Jonathan Hunley in a cook-off in the 13th annual Taste of the Town event on Tuesday, March 27. The event is sponsored by Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. Graham will pit her Moroccan White Bean Turkey Chili against Hunley’s Butternut Squash [...]