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Waynesboro’s unemployment rate shot past the 9 percent barrier in January, and unemployment across the Greater Augusta region was up significantly across the board, according to data released by the Virginia Employment Commission on Friday. But continue reading below the fold here, because I think I might have noticed something unusual, to say the least,…
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Waynesboro author Inman Majors will be signing copies of his new novel, The Millionaires, on Saturday from 2-4 p.m. at Blue Mountain Coffees in Downtown Staunton. Proceeds from the sales of The Millionaires, a story of the rise and fall of two banking brothers who make a run at the Tennessee governor’s office in the…
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A discount-store owner who has told the local print newspaper that he would “probably move” if Downtown Waynesboro were to ever get back on its feet is, for all intents and purposes, the point man on downtown redevelopment until that day comes. “I think the compromise, as long as the two restaurants survive through it…
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A Charlotte Avenue man has been arrested and charged with the Monday robbery of a SunTrust Bank branch in Waynesboro. Stuart Henry Veney III, 29, was arrested without incident at 2 a.m. Wednesday, according to a Waynesboro Police Department news release sent out this morning.
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Waynesboro Police have released surveillance photos from a bank robbery downtown Monday afternoon, but it is believed that the suspect may have been wearing a disguise, including face paint and a hat with dreadlocks, which could make it hard to identify the man from the photos.
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Megan Blosser worked four or five nights a week for six months with her dance partner, Kristina Winn, on the dance routine that won the duet recognition at the recent DanceMakers Inc. competition in Richmond. That’s how you have to do it to get every step, every move of the arms, every smile just right.
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– Local News: Waynesboro City Council meeting agenda, Monday, 10:10 a.m. – Local News: SCORE seminar this week, Monday, 10:10 a.m. – Local News: VDOT road work schedule, Monday, 10:10 a.m.
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The Waynesboro Generals announced Thursday the signing of Andy Chalot to coach the team in 2009. Chalot, currently the assistant baseball coach at West Virginia Tech, was the first hire by Lawrence Nesselrodt, Waynesboro’s director of baseball operations. Prior to joining Nesselrodt at West Virginia Tech, Chalot was the pitching coach at Gannon University from…
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– Local News: JMU school psych alumni honored for leading change in field, Friday, 10:25 a.m. – Local Events: Local artisan to exhibit at Waynesboro Heritage Museum, Friday, 10:25 a.m.
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No one seems willing to step forward to do something. That, Waynesboro Economic Development Authority chairman Carl Rosberg told the River City 2020 Forum Thursday, is a big thing holding Waynesboro back economically. Local developer Bill Hausrath called a group of property owners in and around Downtown Waynesboro together last year to try to get…
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