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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Waynesboro Generals debuted a new home website today – www.waynesborogenerals.net. The site features updated news on the team and features on the people who make up the Waynesboro Generals organization. The site debuted with a story about the 2010 schedule for the Generals, who open the 2010 Valley…
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Retired basketball referee in the running for Ward C seat Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro native Jeff Freeman announced on Friday that he will run for the Ward C seat on Waynesboro City Council in the May 4 city elections. “It’s a huge leap. I’m excited about it. I’m not a trained politician. You…
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Story by Chris Graham www.waynesboroymca.com The weather is affecting all of our schedules. It’s also affecting the ability of local hospitals to keep up with blood-donation needs. “We are not ready to claim a crisis or emergency situation, but we are feeling the effects of the weather,” said Brian Chandler with Virginia Blood Services,…
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Video by Terry Short Submit your videos: [email protected] Terry Short of Help Slow Down the Waynesboro School Redistricting has put together a PowerPoint presentation on the proposed redistricting. The Waynesboro School Board is considering realigning the city’s four elementary schools to have two serve as bases for PreK-2 elementary education and to have two…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] “So You Think You Can Dance” and “High School Musical 3” dancer Jaimie Goodwin will be in Waynesboro Saturday, Feb. 6, and Sunday, Feb. 7, to teach a benefit workshop in association with Old Dominion Performance Arts Studio. Goodwin was a finalist on “So You Think You Can Dance”…
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Critzer, Gauldin step forward to save Valley League team Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The uncertain future of the Waynesboro Generals was a hot topic of conversation for a lot of baseball fans in and around Waynesboro the past several weeks. Among those talking around the proverbial hot stove were a pair of Waynesboro-based businessmen…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] Do you love singing, candy, and getting wrapped up in a great story? Then Roald Dahl’s “Willy Wonka” musical auditions are for you! The Waynesboro Players in partnership with Imagine That! Theatre is producing this much-loved tale of the world-famous candy man on a quest to find a young…
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Video Essay by Chris Graham [email protected] Jilted at the altar, again. The top candidate for the open economic-development director job has turned Waynesboro down, meaning city leaders are back at the drawing board. It’s imperative that the city get on the stick on this, AFP editor Chris Graham offers in today’s installment of The…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Plenty of enthusiasm, with a couple of doses of reality. That was the downtown visioning session held in a packed City Council chambers in Waynesboro Thursday night. The packed chambers were a sign of the enthusiasm. Sixty-seven people took part in the two-hour-plus session, which had participants breaking up…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Another study in Waynesboro – like we need one of those. But maybe we do. We haven’t followed the advice of any of the other studies, but eventually we have to get one right, right? We can hope as much as we head into tonight’s downtown visioning session –…
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