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Renowned artist Sherry Morgan, who for the past 30 years has appeared on Main Street during the Virginia Fall Foliage Festival Art Show, will this year appear inside of Valley Framing Studio and Gallery in Downtown Waynesboro. Morgan will be exhibiting over 60 pieces of work. These include many new framed originals plus framed limited-edition…
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The latest on ongoing roads projects in the Shenandoah Valley from the Virginia Department of Transportation. Rockbridge County Interstate 64 * Mile marker 41 to 57, eastbound and westbound – Litter and debris removal. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. * Various locations – Ditch cleaning, mowing Monday to Saturday, 7 a.m….
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Jim Serba is done complaining about the issues in the Waynesboro treasurer’s office. The retired retail-store troubleshooter wants to do something about it. “I’m not going to blast anybody. Everybody is trying to do the best that they can. But from what I’ve read, things are basically out of control in that office, and somebody…
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A forgotten chapter in Valley history and a prominent local military school play central roles in a new book by novelist Elizabeth Tidwell. Device and Deceit is a historical-fiction thriller set in the Waynesboro area during World War II and involves a German scientist being held at a prisoner of war camp near Sherando Lake…
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Waynesboro officials are still on the hunt for someone to fill the economic-development director position that has been open for more than a year. The city is currently in the second round of recruitment for the position, which has been vacant since former economic-development director Meghan Williamson left the post in August 2008.
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When I interviewed Sandee Dixon for the story in our sister New Dominion Magazine back in August on the issues she was facing in running her city treasurer’s office, she told me that she had just finished meetings with state auditors for the office’s annual review, and that she was expecting “good news” when their…
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The state unemployment rate dropped in August to three percentage points below the national average, and the rate also dipped locally in the Central Shenandoah Valley. The state rate was at 6.5 percent in August, down from 6.9 percent in July and 7.3 percent in June, according to data on the Virginia Employment Commission updated…
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Waynesboro High School football coach Steve Isaacs joins today’s “Chris Graham Show” to preview the Little Giants’ game Friday night at Harrisonburg. What does WHS need to do to slow the mighty Blue Streak Machine down? Coach Isaacs gives his insight on that question and wraps up the loss to R.E. Lee Monday night. Length:…
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As in, what if it hadn’t been the likable DuBose Egleston at the centerpiece of a criminal-justice firestorm in Waynesboro, but another politician who was perhaps more of a lightning rod politically? Would the news coverage be as generally positive as it has been of Egleston in recent days? AFP editor Chris Graham ponders the…
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Ronnie Palmer has built a winner in baseball at the community-college and now Division II college levels. It’s now Palmer’s task to rebuild the Waynesboro Generals after a season that saw the team miss the Valley League playoffs for the first time in three years. “The history of the Valley League goes without saying with…
