
Republicans claim credit for Virginia budget surplus
Virginia Republican leaders are taking credit for the $553 million state budget surplus announced Monday.

Virginia Republican leaders are taking credit for the $553 million state budget surplus announced Monday.

The Senate has approved a proposal championed by U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) to help school districts better leverage limited resources by giving them access to important tools to help eliminate unnecessary administrative costs and allow more funding to go into the classroom.

U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Claire McCaskill welcomed the inclusion of key provisions of their Teach Safe Relationships Act in the compromise version of the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 (ECAA) introduced on the Senate floor today by U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP).

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.
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