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One of the great things about living in an urban environment is being able to walk around town to get some exercise and see people and breathe in the fresh air. The efforts of group of parents at a Waynesboro elementary school who are working with the city and the federal government to improve pedestrian…
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The bad news – at 10 a.m. Friday it appeared that the hard decisions being made at Invista regarding its future in Waynesboro were getting harder, with a Breaking News Update from TheNewsVirginian.com blaring the headline “Invista lays off 250.” The good news came in a followup e-mail sent at 10:32 a.m. “The message sent…
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(Updated with statements from Del. Chris Saxman and Democratic legislative candidates Erik Curren and Greg Marrow appearing under our Comments section.) One thousand, one hundred and thirty two. That’s a real number for you, specifically how many more Waynesboro residents are out of a job as of the most recent report of the Virginia Employment…
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The April 2009 edition of The New Dominion Magazine is making its way out into coffeeshops and restaurants and libraries and businesses across the Central Shenandoah Valley. It’s our first Green Issue, focusing on the local green economy in our cover story and taking a look at how green thinking is impacting our real-estate market…
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Running my own business, two of them, really, when you count the day job at Augusta Free Press Publishing and the nights and weekends that I spend getting the Waynesboro Generals ready for the summer, I know that times are tight, that money is tighter, so when somebody wants to do business with me, I…
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Media General has cut 90 jobs from its flagship newspaper, the Times-Dispatch in Richmond, according to a story on the paper’s website Thursday. Twenty-eight of the positions were in the newsroom, according to an Associated Press report. The rest were scattered throughout the production, circulation, marketing, business, advertising, operations, facilities, prepress design and targeted solutions…
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– The green legislation that won’t cost you $3,100 a year – The automatic pay raise that Mark Warner didn’t vote for
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– That Reo Hatfield is going to run for City Council. – That Cory Alexander is going back to the UVa. bench. – That a local paper is going online-only.
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The good news – area graduation rates are right at or just above the state average. The bad news – we’re still only graduating around four in five ninth-graders in four years, and close to one in 12 are dropping out altogether. That is the revelation from Tuesday’s release of the Virginia School Report Card…
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The Wayne Theatre Alliance and the Waynesboro YMCA will welcome spring to the Valley with a fun-packed three hours for children of all ages on Saturday, April 11. The White Rabbit and the Mad Hatter will open the gates to the Mad Hatter’s Easter Parade in Waynesboro’s Constitution Park at 11 am. For the next…
