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The 2010 Stuff the Bus weekend sponsored by the United Way of Greater Augusta was a solid success – collecting 2,250 boxes of crayons, 22,240 pencils, 2,978 spiral notebooks, 5,800 pens, 1,360 bottles of glue, 11,330 glue sticks, 200 backpacks and 1,191 packs of notebook paper, as well as hundreds of other items. The total…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Staunton, Augusta, and Waynesboro have been awarded $53,842 in federal funds under the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program. The selection was made by the National Board and is chaired by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency and consists of representatives from American Red…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The United Way of Greater Augusta formally announced today the launch of the Greater Augusta Volunteer Center. The Center will serve as a hub for coordinating and connecting volunteer’s with opportunities that support nonprofits serving Greater Augusta. Anyone seeking to serve as a volunteer can simply register at www.unitedwayga.org…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] A new Dolly Parton Imagination Library is coming to the City of Staunton. The Imagination Library program, which gives free books to children birth to five years of age, is sponsored through the United Way of Greater Augusta.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The search for a new economic-development director in Waynesboro that had dragged on for 19 months is over. City Manager Mike Hamp announced in a press release Thursday morning that Greg Hitchin, currently the business development manager in Onondaga County in New York, has taken the job effective April…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello is facing a full-court press from the Republicans gunning for the chance to knock him off in November. The press might work better if the GOP’ers weren’t trying at the same time to steal the ball from each other. “My opponent Jim McKelvey put…
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Column by Del. Ken Plum www.kenplum.com Last week I took the extraordinary step of making a motion on the floor of the House of Delegates that a bill be discharged from a committee. The rules provide for such a motion, but it is seldom made and almost never approved. Had my motion been approved,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] If you’re a rock-ribbed conservative, you would probably already think that WSVA needs to rein in that liberal kook Andy Schmookler. Well, that liberal kook Andy Schmookler that you know and have come to loathe was Andy Schmookler playing nice.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You might find out what a tomato is actually supposed to taste like. That’s one advantage to community supported agriculture. “It’s picked fresh that day, so you end up with an incredibly fresh selection of vegetables that have not been treated with Clorox to preserve them,” said David Beebe,…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Congratulations are in order to Phil and Ellen Winter, whose persistence in their search for information about the workings of the city treasurer office in Waynesboro led to their collection of dozens of pages of e-mails, memos and audit reports, an investigative report in The New Dominion Magazine, more…
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