3Rs fundraiser puts books in hands of Waynesboro students for summer reading
For children, reading six books or more during summer vacation help students avoid the phenomenon known as the “summer slide.”
For children, reading six books or more during summer vacation help students avoid the phenomenon known as the “summer slide.”
Staunton Public Library’s circulation total was 176,461 in 2022. The one library is just 21,000 short of Augusta County Library’s total for seven branches at 197,942.
With temperatures dipping as low as 21 degrees this week, it’s unsettling to think that there are homeless people, homeless children, with no place to call home in the Waynesboro area.
More numbers are in, and the writing may be on the wall for incumbent Waynesboro City Councilman Sam Hostetter.
City Council races in Ward C and D in Waynesboro will likely remain too close to call until the extended canvass is completed on Monday.
There’s a whole lot of change in Waynesboro when it comes to voting in November.
Staunton High School’s Lori Peltonen, a library/media specialist and educator for 30 years, is the 2023 Region V Teacher of the Year.

The Waynesboro City Office of the Voter Registrar’s move to the city library is under way – with the official change of address happening on Wednesday, Aug. 24.

Anne Spencer was born in 1882. A poet and civil rights activist, she was part of what would come to be called the Negro Renaissance in the 1920s in Lynchburg.

Seventy-one Waynesboro city government employees, 30 of them full-time employees, are paid less than $15 per hour, according to data provided by the city to Augusta Free Press.
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