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Waynesboro: Seems out of whack, what we pay the guy who runs the school system
I wonder if Waynesboro taxpayers know that they are paying the guy who manages the $65.7 million school budget more than they pay the guy who manages the $167.5 million budget that runs the entire city government?
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Beth Macy on proposed Roanoke data center: ‘Congress must get involved’
Beth Macy is free and clear to stick up for the 75 percent of us who don’t want data centers in our backyard.
Police: One dead in officer-involved shooting at Staunton Walmart
The details are very sparse, but we can confirm that a male subject has been confirmed dead in an officer-involved shooting at the Staunton Walmart on Tuesday.
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Central Shenandoah Health District: Flu, COVID, RSV vaccines now available
The person that 49.8 percent of voters in 2024 made sure was put in charge of the federal healthcare system is an anti-vaxxer, which makes things hard for those in the public health sector to get an important point across about the efficacy of vaccines as your best protection against possible severe complications from flu, COVID-19 and RSV.
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Michael Schoeffel | Hey, there, nice to meet you, we’re the cool parents
Hey there! It's so nice to meet you at this back-to-school thing for our kindergarteners that we’re all just milling around at, alternating between looking at the ground and smiling blankly into the middle distance.
Reese Bull | Ben Cline on the Supreme Court: Supreme, or supine?
In his email newsletter, Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline writes with pride about voting against Democratic-sponsored efforts to reform the Supreme Court.
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AFP is nominating Waynesboro High School legend Reggie Harris for VHSL Hall of Fame
We’re proud to be a part of the effort to get long-deserved recognition for a local sports legend, Reggie Harris – a two-sports star at Waynesboro High School in the 1980s, who earned a basketball scholarship from Virginia Tech, and was also a first-round MLB Draft pick out of high school by the Boston Red Sox.
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Mailbag: Why don’t UVA Football fans travel? Readers think I have the answer
Remember the Shell Answer Man? I’m not really that old, but I do – and despite how I present myself on matters involving UVA Football, no, I am not the Answer Man.
UVA Football: Updated depth chart no longer lists Jason Hammond in the starting lineup
The UVA Football program apparently updated its depth chart for Saturday’s game with Delaware between the time the PR folks handed out a printed copy to the media on hand for Tony Elliott’s Tuesday press conference.
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Beth Macy on proposed Roanoke data center: ‘Congress must get involved’
Beth Macy is free and clear to stick up for the 75 percent of us who don’t want data centers in our backyard.
Waynesboro: Berkeley Glenn student took knife with 3½-inch blade to school
We had another potentially scary incident at a Waynesboro school on Wednesday, this time at Berkeley Glenn Elementary School, where a student reported to an instructional assistant that another student, who is 9 years old, had a knife in his desk.
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