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– Programming Note: New United Way-Imagination Library to be featured on WKDW Friday morning – AFP on Facebook: Poll/Discussion – The Leader, or the NV? – Local News: Bridgewater students to create NYC skyline in Staunton, posted Thursday, 9:40 a.m. – Business: Local florist celebrating 10 years, posted Thursday, 9:40 a.m. – Local News: Comp…
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Last Thursday marked my 100th day as your U.S. Congressman, and I’d like to report back on some of the successes of this first 100 days and what more remains to be done. While the extraordinary times we face have demanded some extraordinary measures, like the recovery bill, I believe we have laid a strong…
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner held a town-hall meeting with area residents in Staunton on Thursday. AFP editor Chris Graham reports across the media platforms. The news report and photo package are up and running. We also now have the video with Warner’s 15 minutes of opening remarks on the economy and the stimulus package up…
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– Programming Note: Off to see Mark Warner in Staunton, posted Thursday, 10:20 a.m. – Local News: Recognizing mental illness in children and adolescents, posted Thursday, 8:35 a.m. – Sports: UVa. Spring Football Festival this weekend, posted Thursday, 8:35 a.m.
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Emily Henline and Blair Wingfield will join the St. Clair Street Band in a spring musical fest at the Friday, April 17, “River City Radio Hour.” Eleven-year-old Emily Henline is a sixth-grader at Beverly Manor Middle School. Former Statler Brother Jimmy Fortune has said of her, “Emily has a great voice. My friend Barbara Fairchild…
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(Updated with statements from Del. Chris Saxman and Democratic legislative candidates Erik Curren and Greg Marrow appearing under our Comments section.) One thousand, one hundred and thirty two. That’s a real number for you, specifically how many more Waynesboro residents are out of a job as of the most recent report of the Virginia Employment…
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Let’s put the $4.2 million that Terry McAuliffe raised for his gubernatorial campaign in the first three months of 2009 in perspective. Mark Warner, the Big Kahuna, raised $1.4 million for his gubernatorial campaign in the first quarter of 2001. To be fair, Warner was a Democrat in what was then a Republican state, so…
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– Local News: Ramp at 247 on I-81 to close two nights next week, posted Tuesday, 2 p.m. – State News: Virginia on iTunes U, posted Tuesday, 2 p.m. – State News: ACLU critical of threat assessment for colleges, universities in fusion center report, posted Tuesday, 2 p.m. – State News: More than 2 million…
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Everyone’s still catching their breath from last year’s election season. However, all the nastiness is sure to fire up again now that Barack Obama has been sworn in. In fact, some of the inaugural season’s heat was generated when Obama announced that evangelical pastor Rick Warren would deliver the invocation at the presidential inauguration. Warren…
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The unemployment rate in Waynesboro jumped the 10 percent mark in February, according to figures released on Wednesday by the Virginia Employment Commission. The rate was at 10.3 percent, more than double the 4.9 percent rate in the city in February 2008. There were 629 more people out of work in Waynesboro in February 2009…
