
Community Foundation presents prizes to local educators
The Community Foundation presented 10 prizes totaling $100,000 during the 21st annual Dawbarn Education Awards ceremony.

The Community Foundation presented 10 prizes totaling $100,000 during the 21st annual Dawbarn Education Awards ceremony.

Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro Libraries are partnering to host a Comic Con for teens July 10 through 12. The free event will change location each day and will feature art and costume contests, anime screenings, exhibits and and food.

Virginia Organizing will host a screening of the documentary We’re Not Broke at the Staunton Public Library on Thursday, June 26 at 6:30 p.m. A discussion with James Madison University Professor of Economics Dr. J. Barkley Rosser will follow.

The Augusta Health Foundation, the charitable arm of Augusta Health, has announced its inaugural Board of Directors.

Black Swan Books & Music team with the SWAG Writers Reading Series to present a reading by fiction writers Clifford Garstang (What the Zhang Boys Know and In an Uncharted Country) and Steve Weddle (Country Hardball).

CW 150 Legacy Project staff will be visiting Staunton on Friday, March 21, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Staunton Public Library.

The public has spoken! For the second year in a row community members have chosen the One Book One Community title. The 2014 selection is “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot.

On Thursday, June 27 at 7 p.m., Virginia Organizing will hold a forum on the history and current state of immigration in the Shenandoah Valley at the Staunton Public Library.

Members of the growing creative media community have several exceptional opportunities coming up, including a screenwriting workshop, a beginning audio workshop — both free — and a regional short film competition.

World renowned artist P. Buckley Moss has painted an exclusive watercolor print to show her support for WVPT and Public Television. For more than three decades, the Waynesboro native has created and donated an exclusive print to WVPT. Each year, prints of the original are made and sold exclusively through WVPT, with all proceeds going…
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