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Waynesboro City Manager Mike Hamp is telling City Council that it needs to raise the city property-tax rate eight cents to balance the budget, and that even in doing so the city won’t be out of the woods in future budget years given the decline in the city’s industrial sector. “The organization’s current, near term,…
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Making plans for your estate can feel like an overwhelming task. So it is often put off to another day. But this is a key way to help build a more secure future for yourself as well as to make decisions on how your money can help those people and organizations important to you. On…
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The Waynesboro Police Department is investigating an armed robbery that occurred early Sunday morning, March 27,at the Shell Station located at 301 E. Broad St. An unknown black male wearing a black toboggan pulled over his face entered the store and approached the 26-year-old female clerk demanding money. He was displaying a gray-colored semi-automatic handgun,…
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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…
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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…
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The Center is setting aside March 17 to honor our members who will turn 90 years old or older this year. This will be a special day for the whole Center. When we had this party in 2006, we had six members who met the age criteria. We have definitely grown over the years and…
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We are having an exciting new fundraiser at the Senior Center on Saturday, April 2, at 6 p.m. The evening will start with a great spaghetti dinner including appetizers and dessert. Then Kathy Johnson of Murder is a Game is going to lead you through an intriguing storyline about our five suspects that is set…
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Yard Sale Time Everyone loves a good deal! Several of the Center members and volunteers have come together to plan a monthly indoor yard sale to raise money for the Center. The sales will be held on the first Thursday and Friday of each month from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The one for March…
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The Center is going to host a Veterans Health Fair on Feb 24. Staff members from the Salem VA Medical Center will be on site with many health displays and the ability to sign people up for VA Health Services. They want to reach as many veterans as possible that have not yet signed up…
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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…
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