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Waynesboro: RISE Foundation, after losing out on state funding, closing up shop

A local nonprofit that lost out on lucrative state funding earlier this year, then got caught up in a scandal that led a Waynesboro School Board candidate to end his campaign, is shutting its doors at the end of the month.

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