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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] The National Weather Service has pulled back its Winter Storm Watch for the Greater Augusta area in favor of a new Winter Weather Advisory that is now in effect for Saturday. The Advisory runs from 4 a.m. Saturday to 11 p.m. Saturday night. The forecast is now for a…
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Staff Report EMU sports: www.emu.edu On Dec. 12, Southern Virginia handed the Runnin Royals their first loss of the 2009-2010 season, 92-79 in Buena Vista. Thursday night, Eastern Mennonite paid back the Knights in Harrisonburg by racing to a 26-point halftime lead en route to an 89-68 victory. The teams quickly started the game…
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Staff Report VMI sports: www.vmikeydets.com The Liberty Flames used a 66-32 advantage in points in the paint and a 53-25 rebounding margin to prevail, 91-73, over the visiting VMI Keydets Thursday night in a Big South contest played at the Vines Center in Lynchburg, Va. Despite a 27-12 halftime rebounding edge, the homestanding Flames’…
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Former UVa. standout, NFL veteran talks politics, civic engagement at WHS Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Without football pads, wearing dress slacks and a light blue Oxford, no tie, Brad Butler could have passed for the high-school government teacher that he basically was for an hour at Waynesboro High School Thursday afternoon. Which isn’t to…
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Video Essay by Chris Graham [email protected] The Waynesboro School Board listened. Citizens said, Slow down!, to the proposed elementary-school redistricting, and the School Board is slowing down. Waynesboro City Council could listen, literally, to complaints from the AFP and the Waynesboro Citizens for Responsible Spending about its new rules for public comments at City…
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Staff Report VMI sports: www.vmikeydets.com VMI’s Stan Okoye posted his fifth straight game of at least 20 points and 10 rebounds, and the Keydets outlasted a strong Southern Virginia effort to earn a 99-87 victory over the Knights in a non-conference contest played at Cameron Hall Tuesday evening. After battling through a close game…
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Citizens group hears from City Council candidate Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Ward D Waynesboro City Council candidate Mike Harris introduced himself to a friendly audience Tuesday night, speaking at a meeting of the Waynesboro Citizens for Responsible Spending at the Waynesboro Public Library. Harris, 62, is a Virginia State Police and military veteran who…
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Staff Report Liberty U. sports: www.libertyflames.com Liberty defeated Coastal Carolina for the 32nd consecutive time Monday evening at Kimbel Arena, but it wasn’t easy. The Lady Flames trailed by 10 points in the second half, but used a 24-2 game-closing run to pull out a 57-38 road win over the Chanticleers. The Lady Flames…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] The Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge announced today the recent creation of the Valley Program for Aging Services Endowment Fund. The estate of Leonard Penland, a Waynesboro resident who died in 2009, made the first contribution of $100,000. Mr. Penland wished to honor Lewis Coiner of Waynesboro…
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Video by Norm Shafer www.normshafer.com Norm Shafer of Norm Shafer Photography in Waynesboro reports on the rebirth of the Solid Rock Cafe, a Waynesboro-based organization that provides an important outreach to youths and teens in the Greater Augusta area. Solid Rock Cafe will be marking its formal grand reopening at its 1219 W. Broad St. location…
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