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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] DuPont Community Credit Union’s 2010 Corporate Charity “Cause for Paws” Employee Team is sponsoring a Prize-A-Day Drawing for the month of August to raise money for area SPCAs and animal shelters. Drawing tickets are being sold by team members at various businesses on weekends and available at DCCU offices…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Four Generals will represent Waynesboro in the 2010 Valley League All-Star Game set for Sunday night in Harrisonburg. Austin Peay freshman Cody Hudson, Western Carolina freshman Taylor Sandefur, Patrick Henry Community College sophomore Terrell Thompson and Akron junior Andrew Turocy were selected for the game, the league announced on…
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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] It might even strike some as morose at first blush: asking friends to build your casket. But this poignant experience provided a tangible way for a group of church members to express a deep level of caring for the Wayne and Shannon Sneary family of Harrisonburg….
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Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected] You might remember all the hubbub over what they were planning to do with Interstate 81. They were going to pave over the Valley! That was what people were saying, anyway, looking at the monstrosities of plans that we knew as the Star Solutions proposal and the Fluor…
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Column by Bill Bolling www.billbolling.com This week I had the privilege of announcing an $800,000 grant to construct a new Wind Energy Training Center at James Madison University. This is the latest in a series of steps that Gov. McDonnell and I have taken to make Virginia the East Coast’s energy leader. Gov. McDonnell…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Bike Virginia, a multi-day biking event in its 23rd year, will be bringing approximately 2,000 bicycle riders to Staunton this week for a three-day ride. Cyclists will arrive and check in on Friday, June 25th, and will depart Monday, June 28th. Around 1,300 bicyclists will be staying in local…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Harrisonburg rallied from a 5-0 fifth-inning deficit to steal a win at Waynesboro, 7-5, Sunday night at Mathers Park. WaynesboroGenerals.com has the story.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] On Saturday, June 19, the Augusta County Library in Fishersville will welcome patrons through its new entrance. Facing Route 250, the main entrance will bring patrons into new and renovated space, including the former stage and reading garden. In the eight months since the groundbreaking ceremony for Phase 2…
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Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com We did not have a television in our home until I was 16 years old. When Dad finally made some extra money raising broiler chickens in addition to his full-time job doing maintenance work on the Norfolk and Western Railroad, he took the extra hundred dollars and bought us…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro stormed back with three runs in the ninth and then four in the 10th to post an improbable 7-3 extra-inning win at Harrisonburg Tuesday night. WaynesboroGenerals.com has the story.
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