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Westwood Hills Elementary School will reopen on Thursday, Sept. 17, “for students ready to return,” according to an update from Waynesboro Public Schools that went out on Friday.
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Before you get too upset about how little Waynesboro is set to get from the 2026-27 School Security Equipment Grant program, keep in mind, the applications would have been filed weeks ago.
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Westwood Hills Elementary School is closed again on Thursday, and it’s not hard to figure that Waynesboro Public Schools should just look at getting things open there again next week, after the Sept. 2 shooting.
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At last count, 20 current teachers have reached out to us in recent weeks to share specific concerns about the status quo inside Waynesboro Public Schools.
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Westwood Hills Elementary School will be closed on Friday, and then next Tuesday, after the Labor Day holiday, according to a release from Waynesboro Public Schools issued Thursday evening.
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It seemed like Waynesboro Superintendent Jeffrey Cassell was trying to tell us that the young man who broke into Westwood Hills Elementary School, shot a school staffer, then turned the gun on himself, had no history with the city school system.
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Waynesboro, Staunton and Augusta County are news deserts, per a measure from Local Journalism Index 2026, a joint project of Muck Rack and Rebuild Local News.
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We got another stinging set of numbers about the lack of results from Waynesboro Public Schools this week.
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Waynesboro needs an all-new School Board, an all-new City Council, and while we’re at it, we need to clean house in City Hall.
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Northrop Grumman breezed into town a couple years ago promising hundreds of millions in investment and high-paying jobs. Waynesboro leaders clearly didn’t do their homework about how much the deal would end up costing us.
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