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I was still trying to be hopeful Sunday night after the loss to the Covington Lumberbacks that put our Waynesboro Generals team on the brink of elimination from the 2009 Valley League playoff race. Team owner Jerry Carter, out of character, for those who know him, was the realist among us. “We’re still in this,”…
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A two-out RBI single in the bottom of the ninth off the bat of Alex McClure tied the game at 4, and an Evan Stobbs RBI sac fly five long innings later plated Rob Kral with the game-winning run as Waynesboro rallied past Fauquier 5-4 at The Fish Thursday night. Chris Graham called the final nine innings…
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Waynesboro Generals fans are invited to stay after the home game with Fauquier on Thursday night for a meet-and-greet with Generals players. Fans are invited to take photos and get autographs for 30 minutes after the game at Fishburne Military School Park at Kate Collins Field. Tables and chairs will be set up around the…
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Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008, 2:28 p.m. Waynesboro voter registrar Mary Alice Downs hits Send on an e-mail to Nelson County voter registrar Lisa Wooten. “I thought I would just touch base with you and see if you still have an interest in a move to Waynesboro? My Board is trying to plan for the upcoming…
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Her baked pork tenderloin was legendary; her breakfasts made famous by interstate word of mouth long before the Internet.
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We have ourselves a ball team now. “Can’t do much without the players,” said Brian Lundstrom, in the fall, winter and spring a teacher at Kate Collins Middle School, and in the summer the public-address announcer for the Waynesboro Generals, who begin their 2009 season with an exhibition game Wednesday night against the Stuarts Draft…
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The view from my desk is now of Mad Anthony Wayne. That’s because we’ve opened a new Waynesboro Generals Store here at the Augusta Free Press Publishing office at 539 W. Main St. in Downtown Waynesboro. The mural of Gen. Wayne is the only thing not for sale, but you can check out the selection…
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The Waynesboro Generals begin regular-season Valley League play two weeks from Friday night. But the Generals will take to the field two nights earlier to fight for some Greater Augusta braggin’ rights. The Generals will play host to the Stuarts Draft Diamondbacks of the Rockingham County Baseball League Wednesday, June 3, at 7 p.m. at…
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Story by Chris Graham Pete VandenBout admits to being a “little nervous” when he showed up to play baseball in Waynesboro a couple of years ago, not so much because of the baseball, but because he didn’t know the first thing about the family that was going to put him up for the summer. “Right…
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