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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…
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The 2009 state elections are going to be about the economy, for obvious reasons. Steve Landes thinks this is to his benefit. “The NFIB, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, who represent small businesses, they’re supporting me, they’re not supporting you,” said Landes, who works in the marketing and public-relations department at the DuPont Community…
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Talk about troubling. That’s what the chatter involving the allegations against former Waynesboro City Councilman DuBose Egleston is. Troubling. Want to know how ridiculous this has gotten? “DuBose has already confessed on video tape,” a commenter on the News Virginian blog who goes by the handle TakeMeSerious wrote this morning, before clarifying that the information…
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The latest on ongoing local roads projects 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, Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
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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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