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It’s a special edition of “Friday Night Lights” – “Monday Night Football”-style. AugustaFreePress.com and the Waynesboro Generals bring you tonight’s Waynesboro-R.E. Lee Southern Valley District showdown. AFP editor Chris Graham and Waynesboro Generals owner Jerry Carter bring you all the action beginning at 5:45 p.m. with a pregame show and then play-by-play beginning at 6…
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If you build it, they will come. “Imagine what this would do for kids in Waynesboro,” Waynesboro High School football coach Steve Isaacs tells me, going into detail on his vision for a new synthetic-turf athletic field at the city high school. “Kids would grow up wanting to play on that field,” Isaacs said. “Football,…
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Former Waynesboro City Council member DuBose Egleston is free on secured bond after being charged with attempted rape on Friday. A 27-year-old woman reported to police at 5 p.m. that she had been sexually assaulted by an acquaintance in her home in Southwest Waynesboro.
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William Perry Elementary School is hosting a charity fundraiser basketball game featuring the Harlem Wizards on Monday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. at the Waynesboro High School gym. The Wizards will take on The Masters of Disaster, a team of WPES all-stars.
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Steve Landes is “starting to get a little PO’d” at what he thinks is Democratic Party opponent Greg Marrow’s effort to “distort” his legislative record. And the seven-term incumbent showed it Thursday night at the end of a heated debate between the 25th District candidates sponsored by the News Virginian and NBC29 at Kate Collins…
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At an event Tuesday morning in Virginia Beach, Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor Jody Wagner announced the “Republicans and Independents for Wagner” steering committee. The committee, comprised of twenty-one Republicans and Independents from throughout the Commonwealth, is led by Virginia Beach Mayor Will Sessoms, Fredericksburg Mayor Tom Tomzak, Blacksburg Mayor Ron Rordam, former State Sen….
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The Central Shenandoah Health District and local vets throughout our district are urging people to “Protect the Ones You Love. Vaccinate Your Pets.” This important message is the focus of this year’s Rabies Awareness Week, Sept. 28-Oct. 4. “Vaccinating companion animals, such as dogs and cats, against rabies for their protection as well as the…
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An updated list of ongoing local road projects from the Virginia Department of Transportation.
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Waynesboro (0-2) will make the trek up U.S. 340 to Spotswood to take on the Trailblazers (2-0) in nondistrict Valley football action tonight at 7 p.m. You can listen to the game live at AugustaFreePress.com courtesy Stretch Internet. AFP editor Chris Graham will provide the play-by-play description of tonight’s action. Waynesboro Generals owner and veteran…
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The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum today announced that a group from the national Model A Restorers Club will be visiting the Presidential Library on Monday, Sept. 21, from 9 to 10:45 a.m. The members of the club, who will park their 15 Model A cars in the Presidential Library parking lot during the…
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