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Hillary Williams from Cold Stone Creamery in Harrisonburg presents a $1,000 check to Debbie Winters, director of Ride With Pride. Ride With Pride is Augusta County’s therapeutic horseback riding program for youth and adults with physical, mental, and emotional challenges. Stone Cold Creamery created a video with RWP to celebrate the new eight-layer cake. For…
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John Spears thought his job at the Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce annual dinner was to help Waynesboro YMCA executive director Jeff Fife sell tickets to this Friday’s Y Spring Gala. He was in for a surprise. “I’m going to get somebody. I can tell you that,” said Spears, the youth-sports director at the…
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Waynesboro YMCA Childcare is now online with its own dedicated website – with the help of Augusta Free Press LLC. “The childcare staff and I are so excited about the childcare website. This is our opportunity to show the community the hands on learning and fun that take place at the Y,” said Waynesboro Y…
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“Can I see your license and registration?” Words that no one likes to hear. Words that I hadn’t had to hear with consequences to myself until Wednesday morning. Yes, I’ve heard it in movies and TV shows and when once my dad was pulled over and I happened to be in the car. I’ve even…
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The Virginia Lottery and Virginia State Police announced a new partnership today aimed at increasing the chances of Virginia law enforcement locating a missing and endangered child during a Virginia Amber Alert. The new concept is a result of a suggestion submitted by a citizen to Gov. Bob McDonnell by e-mail. “When the Virginia State…
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Think about your mailbox. When was the last time you received a letter? Magazines, bills, business promotions, and newsletters do not count, just a genuine personal letter from a friend, sister, brother, cousin, old classmate, or neighbor. Been a while? How about the last time you sent one yourself? We live in an age of…
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Enjoy it while you can – it being free stuff on the ‘Net. Free stuff being free information – free magazine content, free newspapers, free Facebook. i say this to those who have been expressing to me their increasing frustration over web ads. You hear it a lot on Facebook, which has a great business…
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It seems to me that Tim Kaine is the logical choice for Virginia Democrats looking for a Senate candidate in 2012 – and I wouldn’t call myself a political genius for thinking that way. The conventional wisdom isn’t stopping a group of Virginia Dems who are pushing recently unseated former congressman Tom Perriello for the…
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Life is full of little, ordinary bits of beauty which frequently go unnoticed and unappreciated. Using her cameras and editing software, photographer and artist Deb Booth of Waynesboro gets up-close and personal with blossoms and blooms, tweaking and crafting her images to bring out something hidden from first glance – oft-times completely changing the dominant…
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