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The Waynesboro Family YMCA announced on Wednesday the hiring of Norm Wright to head up the Shenandoah Marlins Aquatic Club competitive-swimming program. Link to story on WaynesboroYMCA.com.
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Hmm. What if, indeed? Just think with me on this for a moment or two. What would that newspaper need to be? Independently and locally owned and operated. Some guy in a suit in Richmond or Northern Virginia isn’t dictating how things are run; it’s the guy or gal in the office down the hall….
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Growth in the commercial sector in the West End has buttressed the Waynesboro economy from the worst effects of the ongoing economic slowdown, but that growth has come with a price in the form of traffic congestion on the Lew DeWitt Boulevard-Rosser Avenue corridor. it stands to reason that the explosion in retail that pulls…
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Local business owners and volunteers involved in the tourism industry in the Greater Waynesboro area have announced the formation of the Tourism Association of Greater Waynesboro to advocate for the multimillion-dollar tourism industry. “Few local residents are aware that over $4 million in contributions to the city’s revenue source comes from sales and lodging taxes,…
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As a Waynesboro resident who is a former certified planning commissioner and former chairman of the Rockingham County Planning Commission, I am personally opposed to the proposed Conditional Use Bed and Breakfast in RS-7 district in the city’s new comprehensive plan for a number of reasons. The intent and purpose of the RS-7 District is…
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Front Royal got to Waynesboro starter Chastin Akers early and cruised to a 9-3 win in the deciding Game 3 of the teams’ first-round Valley League playoff series on Saturday night. The Generals trailed 2-0 after one, but had a chance in the third to make it a game when a two-out walk to Chase…
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Note to status-quo foes in Waynesboro: We’re wrong, way wrong. We don’t want to be more like Staunton. Look at the numbers. If anything, they should want to be more like us. The numbers don’t lie. Our economy is bigger – much bigger – than Staunton’s. According to taxable-sales figures from the Weldon Cooper Center…
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A seven-run fourth rallied Waynesboro from a 4-1 deficit in game two of a doubleheader at Harrisonburg and earned the Generals a split with the Turks on Monday. The split gives Waynesboro the #5 seed in the Valley League playoffs, which get going Tuesday night with the Generals traveling to Front Royal to take on…
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A three-run sixth got Waynesboro back in the game, but a ninth-inning rally ended in dramatic fashion with Cody Hudson thrown out trying to steal third with two outs, sending the Generals to a 6-4 defeat at the hands of Winchester Saturday night. The Royals had jumped out to a 6-1 lead with a three-run…
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A four-run top of the 12th seemed to give Woodstock one of the wildest games in the 87-year history of the Valley League. But we weren’t even close in terms of how wild things were going to get. Five consecutive two-out walks, the last one drawn by nine-hole hitter Jon Clinard, gave Waynesboro an improbable…
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