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Waynesboro: Family pressing for answers after child dropped off at wrong bus stop
We’ve got an update on the story involving the special-needs student in Waynesboro who was dropped off by his bus driver more than a mile from home along a busy highway on Tuesday.
Drought update: Over for us, for now, with dry weather in the forecast
We’re officially out of the drought, after last week’s plentiful rains from the remnants of Hurricane Isaias that soaked Waynesboro, Staunton and Augusta County, and a wide swath of the state.
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