Electronics firm to set up operation in Waynesboro: Project to create 65 new jobs

PPI/Time Zero Inc., a leading electronic manufacturing services provider of high reliability aerospace, defense, medical and industrial electronics, will invest $1.15 million to establish operations at Solutions Place in Waynesboro. The project will create 65 new jobs within the next year. Headquartered in Paterson, N.J., PPI/Time Zero is an EMS company providing low-to-medium volume highly…

Chris Graham: Neat project features Downtown Waynesboro

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Deborah Henshaw had this neat idea – to film a series of commercials featuring what a lot of us think is neat about Downtown Waynesboro and put them up on YouTube for the world to see. My two cents to the effort became VirtualWaynesboro.com, a web portal that we donated to the guerilla marketing effort…

Waynesboro Senior Center report: Week of Feb. 14

Chris Graham

The Waynesboro Senior Center, sponsored by Valley Program for Aging Services, invites people 60 years of age and older to participate in a variety of programs to be offered in the coming week. The center, at 325 Pine Ave., in the Jackson-Wilson building, is open 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Transportation is…

Chris Graham: A blueprint for Waynesboro’s economic future

Chris Graham

A road to somewhere, a “funky” downtown, a primary industry. Good advice from John Rhodes, a consultant hired by the city to assist in developing a new economic-development strategy. The good news is that we’ve already got a helluva base on which to build. The Waynesboro economy has nearly doubled in size in the past…

Waynesboro Senior Center news

Chris Graham

The Waynesboro Senior Center, sponsored by Valley Program for Aging Services, invites people 60 years of age and older to participate in a variety of programs to be offered in the coming week. The center, at 325 Pine Ave., in the Jackson-Wilson building, is open 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Transportation is…

Scholarship program will add to ties between Waynesboro, Wanzhou

Chris Graham

One way to keep the growing United States-China global competition from descending into 20th century-style Cold War is to push cultural and economic connections – the likes of which are being forged between Waynesboro and its sister city Wanzhou, China, a bustling industrial city on the Yangtze River with a population of 1.7 million. Adding…