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The Staunton Music Guild recently named Wilson Memorial High School graduate Tori Leche winner of the Ray Houser Scholarship for 2013. Tori is the second recipient of what the Staunton Music Guild hopes will be a long list of “Ray Houser Scholars.”
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Before moving to Staunton last summer, Robert E. Lee High School social studies teacher Jennifer Goss had the privilege of documenting the story of Holocaust survivor, Frank Grunwald. The resulting film, Misa’s Fugue, has since garnered several awards and been selected to play in several prestigious film festivals throughout the world.
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Editor of Plein Air magazine and former editor-in-chief ofAmerican Artist, artist and educator, Steve Doherty moved to the Shenandoah Valley in December. As a painter and a printmaker with a Masters of Fine Arts from Cornell University, Doherty has good reasons to be here.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell Wednesday announced the membership of his newly-created Task Force of School and Campus Safety. The membership includes educators, public safety experts, local leaders, mental health practitioners, legislators, parents, and students.
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His voice cracking at times with emotion, Gary Morrison accepted the challenge of being named the 12th superintendent at Fishburne Military School while issuing a challenge of his own to the Corps of Cadets. “There is a saying in the U.S. armed forces. You’ve heard it befoer and most likely again very recently. That saying is ‘leave no man behind.’ My challenge to this remarkable Corps of Cadets is to adopt that saying as your own,” said Morrison, a 1981 Fishburne graduate who also served on the faculty and later as the director of admissions at the school.
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Ceremonies at Fishburne Military School marked the end of another successful summer session with emphasis on learning in the classroom and on the drill field
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The Staunton Performing Arts Center will present Calling All Kids: Music and Magic at the Dixie on Saturday, June 23, at 10 a.m. This special show for children will be two shows for the price of one, presenting music and stories by Bill Wellington in one theatre and magic by Brian Bence in the other
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Elizabeth (Betty) Johnson Rice, who was a student leader in the largest single sit-in of the civil rights movement, will be the keynote speaker for the Waynesboro NAACP Annual Freedom Fund Banquet
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Attorney Linda Schorsch Jones has announced that she will run for the At-Large seat on the Waynesboro School Board in the May 1 general election. A long-time Waynesboro resident, Jones graduated from Stuarts Draft High School in 1982 and from the University of Virginia in 1986, earning a bachelor of arts degree with honors in…
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The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Foundation today announced that its Board of Trustees has elected Charlottesville pediatrician Michael Dickens as its new Chair and appointed six new Board members: Dr. Richard L. M. Coleman of Staunton; Dr. Gordon A. Haaland of Lancaster County, Virginia; Judge Stephen H. Helvin of Charlottesville; Dr. Edward G. Lengel of…
