Waynesboro Police release new information on Westwood Hills shooting
Waynesboro Police released new information on the shooting at Westwood Hills Elementary School on Wednesday.
Waynesboro Police released new information on the shooting at Westwood Hills Elementary School on Wednesday.
Westwood Hills Elementary School will be closed on Friday, and then next Tuesday, after the Labor Day holiday, according to a release from Waynesboro Public Schools issued Thursday evening.
It seemed like Waynesboro Superintendent Jeffrey Cassell was trying to tell us that the young man who broke into Westwood Hills Elementary School, shot a school staffer, then turned the gun on himself, had no history with the city school system.
A 19-year-old listed as being from Waynesboro forced his way into Westwood Hills Elementary School early Wednesday morning, shooting an adult staff member, then turning the gun on himself.
I understand that tensions are borderline out of control in the neighborhood surrounding Mimosa Farm in Waynesboro, which was the site of another wedding event last month.
We reported a couple of weeks back about a $14,000 grant that was awarded to the City of Waynesboro to fund a feasibility study to evaluate a proposed community commercial kitchen at Vector Industries.
The Waynesboro Players are staging a local production of the award-winning musical 1776 over two weekends in September – Sept. 11-13 and Sept. 18-20.
Waynesboro, Staunton and Augusta County are news deserts, per a measure from Local Journalism Index 2026, a joint project of Muck Rack and Rebuild Local News.
The Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra will hold its annual Symphonic Masquerade fundraiser, titled “An Evening on the Water,” on Friday, Oct. 30 at The Paramount in Downtown Charlottesville.
We got another stinging set of numbers about the lack of results from Waynesboro Public Schools this week.
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