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VirtualWaynesboro.com relaunched Augusta Free Press LLC is partnering with Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. on the relaunch of www.VirtualWaynesboro.com. The website provides news, blogs and videos highlighting goings on in Downtown Waynesboro. The site was originally launched in March 2011 as a video-only site. Content from Augusta Free Press and from blogger Kathy Johnson will be…
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Court Square Theater will host the Latino Film Festival of Shenandoah Valley as it returns for its ninth year of entertainment. The festival will run from October 6 through October 9, 2011 and feature films from Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, and Columbia. For specific dates and up to the minute showtimes, please see courtsquaretheater.com. Find the…
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The RMH Women’s Center will host its annual Women’s Weekend Away retreat Sept. 9-11 at Horizons Retreat and Conference Center, just five miles north of Harrisonburg. “This spa-like retreat will feature time for relaxation and rest, and time to renew or create new friendships,” said Julie Alderfer-Stauffer, RN, clinical educator, RMH Women’s Center. “Guests will…
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Secure Futures LLC, a solar-energy developer based in Staunton, signed an agreement today with Washington and Lee University, Lexington, to install two solar photovoltaic arrays, totaling approximately 450 kilowatts, at two separate locations on the W&L campus. The first solar array, with a capacity of 120 kilowatts, will be installed on a canopy to be…
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Come out to your local Art House and enjoy the latest in Court Square Theater’s Independent/Foreign Film Series as Meek’s Cutoff and The Trip come through mid August through late September. For specific dates and up to the minute showtimes, please see courtsquaretheater.com. Tickets for all showings are available at the door beginning at thirty…
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On July 20-21, Staunton hosted a statewide training presented by the Virginia Main Street program at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel and Conference Center. The VMS program, managed by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development since 1985, works to revitalize Virginia’s historic downtowns by providing training and technical support. Participating communities improve and beautify…
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A dozen Shenandoah Valley residents and I went to Washington last Friday, where I served as a witness at a congressional oversight hearing. The focus was a U.S. Forest Service proposal to ban a controversial natural gas drilling technique – horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing – from more than one million acres of public land…
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Leadership Harrisonburg-Rockingham is accepting applications from prospective community leaders for its upcoming 2011-12 class. The program, formerly called the Community Leadership Program (CLP), is designed to develop tomorrow’s leaders through a series of sessions on all economic and social facets of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County interspersed with leadership skills training. There are nine monthly sessions…
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Augusta Health Hospice of the Shenandoah’s 13th annual Camp Dragonfly is scheduled for Saturday, September 17 & Sunday, September 18 at Camp Horizons in Harrisonburg. Camp Dragonfly offers a great place for 6- to 18-year-olds to gather with their peers to share the experience of grieving the death of someone they love. Because of the generosity…
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On July 1, 2011, Peter Yates of the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg became the 111th president of the Virginia Press Association and Virginia Press Services, Inc. (VPA/VPS) Yates began his newspaper career in 1985 at The Daily Progress in Charlottesville. He became publisher of The Herald-Tribune in Batesville, Ind., in 1987. Yates published several newspapers…
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