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The Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge will join more than 700 community foundations across the United States in celebrating charitable giving during Community Foundation Week, Nov. 12–18, 2009. Locally, the Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge is best known for The Big Read, the Dawbarn Education Awards, and a host of scholarship…
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Schola Cantorum of Waynesboro will present Carmina Burana by Carl Orff on Sunday, Nov. 15, at 3 p.m. at Waynesboro High School. The production will feature Schola along with the Waynesboro High School Concert Choir and the Kate Collins Middle School Ensemble.
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When a top Nazi scientist arrives at a POW camp in the Shenandoah Valley, he begins to redraw plans for a lost weapon. The device, Germany believes, will disable the U.S. East Coast, leading to America’s surrender or at least a neutrality pact. Cadets at Waynesboro’s Fishburne Military School uncover the plot, also involving a…
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Story by Chris Graham With AFP Video William Coffin has seen Iraq twice now, spanning two decades. And he’d go back again, no question, not a moment’s hesitation. After speaking to cadets at Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro at a Veterans Day ceremony, I asked Lt. Col. Coffin, a 26-year military veteran now serving as…
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Staff Report Ntelos is cutting an undisclosed number of jobs in its wireless division and its corporate offices, the Waynesboro-based telecommunications company announced today. We regret the impact this will have on our employees,” said James S. Quarforth, chief executive officer of Ntelos. “Economic conditions over the past year have impacted our wireless business and…
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And it’s a small thing, because Waynesboro isn’t going to turn an election one way or the other all by itself. But my experience as the Democratic Party chair in Waynesboro the past couple of election seasons can be instructive nonetheless. It strikes me that I hadn’t even bothered to look at how Creigh Deeds…
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Six vehicles were broken into outside a performance of the Waynesboro Players production of Tuesday Mourning at Kate Collins Middle School Saturday night. The string of incidents was reported around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, following the performance of the locally-written and -produced play on the loss of 22 natives of nearby Bedford on D-Day, June 6,…
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Story by Chris Graham Dave Norris sort of fell into the lap of Big Brothers Big Sisters. And Big Brothers Big Sisters needed something to go right after its most trying year in its 30-year history. “We are extremely optimistic about where we’re headed. Getting Dave on board was huge. We’ve had a year or…
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Story by Chris Graham It was a good idea. We at AFP.com would become effective groupies for Waynesboro High School football, and remember, before the season, we all thought this was going to be the year things started turning the corner down at the high school. Steve Isaacs, mad scientist of football that he is,…
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I hopped into Mr. Peabody’s Wayback Machine, fastened my seat belt and set the dial to the year “1959.” The destination: the 50-year reunion of the Montevideo High School class of 1959 the evening of Oct. 24 held at the Clear Spring Homestead west of Dayton. I was invited to bring my stax of wax,…
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