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The Waynesboro Family YMCA marked the formal opening of its new Nautilus Center on Tuesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Waynesboro Mayor Tim Williams and YMCA executive director Jeff Fife are among the featured speakers at the event, which drew more than 50 people to the 648 S. Wayne Ave. facility. AFP Video. Length: 4:15.
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Vector Industries is hosting an Open House on Thursday to mark its 40th year of operations in Waynesboro. Vector is a nonprofit providing people with diverse disabilities in Waynesboro, Staunton and Augusta County with opportunities to earn a living and contribute to the community well-being.
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The schedule of events at Stone Soup Books and Cafe, 908 W. Main St., Downtown Waynesboro for the Oct. 9-17 period. Online at www.stonesoupbooks.net. Friday, Oct. 9 – Barbara Martin’s Earthy Blues and Sassy Swing served up with an order of “Frim-Fram Sauce atop the Ausen Fay and Shifafa on the side”…a Fall Foliage Festival…
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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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