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If you build it, they might come. If you don’t, they can’t. That could be one way to sum up the rationale behind the anticipated move by Waynesboro City Council to buy approximately 170 acres of land on the southeast edge of the city for future development as an industrial park. “We’ve not hidden from…
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Waynesboro City Council will vote next week on whether or not it will pursue a $3.475 million deal to purchase approximately 170 acres of land adjacent to Exit 96 off Interstate 64 to create a business park. If it does so, it will take a big step to sealing a deal with a key contributor…
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At its June 15 meeting, the Commonwealth Transportation Board awarded two projects in the Virginia Department of Transportation Staunton District. The VDOT Staunton District serves Frederick, Shenandoah, Clarke, Warren, Page, Rockingham, Augusta, Highland, Rockbridge, Alleghany and Bath counties. A Turnkey Asset Maintenance Services (TAMS) contract valued at $14.7 million was awarded to DBI Services of…
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Verizon Wireless recently activated two new cell sites in Augusta County that expand wireless voice and 3G data coverage. The first site brings improved coverage to the town of Crimora, and the second site improves coverage in Staunton, near the intersection of Interstate 81 and Interstate 64. Expanded 3G capacity in Augusta County lets more…
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Okay, so you’re driving in your car by yourself. It’s been a long day. A song you like has just come on the radio and there are no other cars around. What are you going to do? You’re going to blast the volume up about ten notches and sing along. At least that’s what you…
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A road to somewhere, a “funky” downtown, a primary industry. Good advice from John Rhodes, a consultant hired by the city to assist in developing a new economic-development strategy. The good news is that we’ve already got a helluva base on which to build. The Waynesboro economy has nearly doubled in size in the past…
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The regular 2011 session of the General Assembly began on the second Wednesday of January. The day was full of pomp and circumstance and some matters of substance. We swore in a new state senator, Bill Stanley, from Franklin County, who was elected to fill the seat of newly elected Congressman Robert Hurt. The Courts…
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A key part of Gov. Bob McDonnell’s plan to get Virginia transportation moving would rededicate a portion of sales-tax revenues from the pot of money used to fund schools and public safety to roads projects in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads. McDonnell said today that he will back legislation to move about $140 million a…
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The latest updated list of road work scheduled in the local area from the Virginia Department of Transportation. ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY Interstate 64 * Mile marker 41 to 56 eastbound and westbound – Debris removal, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Interstate 81 * Mile marker 173 to 205 northbound and southbound…
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Growth in the commercial sector in the West End has buttressed the Waynesboro economy from the worst effects of the ongoing economic slowdown, but that growth has come with a price in the form of traffic congestion on the Lew DeWitt Boulevard-Rosser Avenue corridor. it stands to reason that the explosion in retail that pulls…
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