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I give the News Virginian hell often enough that it is only fair of me to give kudos to the paper when deserved, and it’s deserved in the matter of the call in a Wednesday editorial for somebody on Waynesboro City Council to step forward and take the lead on downtown. I’ll take their call…
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I could feel the sting. “We’re not off to quite the start we wanted to be. It’s not a disastrous start or anything,” Andy Chalot told me as we talked for a puff piece for the upcoming Generals Magazine. “We’re still 11-9 and over .500. But we had a couple of games that we should…
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Unemployment ticked up a bit across the Valley in May, though the slight increases were called seasonal by a Virginia Employment Commission economist today. Waynesboro still has the highest unemployment rate locally, at 9.1 percent, up from the 8.8 percent mark in April, according to VEC data released today. Staunton was up from 6.9 percent…
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Waynesboro Generals fans are invited to stay after the home game with Fauquier on Thursday night for a meet-and-greet with Generals players. Fans are invited to take photos and get autographs for 30 minutes after the game at Fishburne Military School Park at Kate Collins Field. Tables and chairs will be set up around the…
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Waynesboro used a solid pitching performance from Ricky Marshall to break a three-game losing streak with a 4-0 win over Rockbridge Sunday night at The Fish. AFP editor and Waynesboro Generals general manager Chris Graham talked with Marshall and assistant coach Kurt Davidson after the game about the win. He also takes us behind the…
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An AFP reader might have a point regarding a possible violation of laws in a discussion between the former voter registrar in Waynesboro and a candidate for the appointment to the post. “Providing information about the manner in which a specific vote is cast, or any information regarding an individual’s votes, is ABSOLUTELY illegal –…
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OK, so the Waynesboro Generals lost 8-2 to the Staunton Braves on the field Thursday night. Even so, the game night was a fun one, with several Generals fans making the trek over ftom the River City to the Queen City for the game at John Moxie Memorial Stadium to encourage the kids in blue…
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The Augusta County Board of Supervisors will meet Monday, June 22, at 1:30 p.m., for its monthly staff briefing, and Wednesday, June 24, at 7 p.m. for a regular business meeting. The meetings will be held at the Augusta County Government Center, U.S. 11, Verona. The agendas for the meetings:
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“Do you believe in the sanctity of human life? Do you believe in traditional marriage? If so, according to Chris Graham, you are as bad as Heinrich Himmler!” a local blogger informed a regular New Dominion and Augusta Free Press advertiser in an e-mail that the advertiser in turn forwarded to me this evening.
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The ongoing news story involving the apparently tainted Iran presidential election hits closer to home than you might think. The key difference being that the controversy over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s 60 percent-plus victory spilled into the streets, while the controversy that still lingers in some circles in Waynesboro over the May 2008 city election is still…
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