
Begrudging respect for Waynesboro City Council: They’re doing one very important thing right
Critics of Waynesboro City Council think of the public body as a do-nothing kind of group. Maybe that’s a good thing?

Critics of Waynesboro City Council think of the public body as a do-nothing kind of group. Maybe that’s a good thing?

The Waynesboro School Board announced the selection of Joshua Herndon as Assistant Principal at Westwood Hills Elementary School.

Kid’s Place at the Waynesboro YMCA is hiring for for the 2014-2015 school year. Hours will vary. Kid’s Place is open Monday-Friday 8:30-1p, Monday-Thursday 4-7:30p, Friday 4-7:30p by appointment only and Saturday from 8:30-11a by appointment only.

UVA baseball coach Brian O’Connor and players Daniel Pinero and Kenny Towns and Vanderbilt baseball coach Tim Corbin and players Carson Fulmer and Dansby Swanson talk with reporters on the eve of Game 1 of the 2015 College World Series Championship Series.

WWE has confirmed that Virgil Runnels, known to millions of wrestling fans as “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes, died on Thursday, with multiple published reports saying the death was the result of complications from a fall in his home early Wednesday morning.

The Steel Wheels Fiddle Workshop is a new addition to the program’s Suzuki Strings Day Camp, now in its eighth year and typically attracting approximately 30 youth violinists.

The Virginia General Assembly has awarded $1 million to researchers at the Curry School of Education’s Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning to expand the assessment of entering kindergartners across the commonwealth.

An election that won’t happen for a year and a half and is likely to pit two disastrously bad presidential candidates against each other dominates the news, but here in Charlottesville there’s a local election on June 9th worth bothering with.

Governor Terry McAuliffe and the state Board of Education announced last week that 252 schools and four school divisions earned 2015 Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) awards for advanced learning and achievement.

This year’s Waynesboro Writes publication is a collection of student writing from Waynesboro’s four elementary schools: Berkeley Glenn Elementary, Wenonah Elementary, Westwood Hills Elementary, and William Perry Elementary, and represents the work of students in grades K-5.
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