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The Waynesboro Omnium bike race took over the streets of Downtown Waynesboro. AFP editor Chris Graham walked the course to talk with fans and participants and take photos from different vantagepoints along the course.
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The Wayne Theatre Alliance will offer “Saturday Special” performances for children on Saturday, April 25 at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Awarding winner storyteller, Barbara Spilman Lawson, will bring her fun-filled performance for the whole family to downtown Waynesboro.
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It was an interesting time to be thinking anything positive about the river that cuts through Downtown Waynesboro. The memories of two major floods nine months apart in 1996 were still raw, but the people behind Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. saw the river doing more than threatening us every time it rained.
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The Waynesboro Players are presenting the world premiere of the locally written Shenandoah Moon, a fictional account of the story of the seizure of land from mountain families to clear the way for the development of the Skyline Drive and the Shenandoah National Park in the 1930s. AFP editor Chris Graham reporting. Includes a sneak…
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City employees are doing more than their share. The Waynesboro school system could take a significant hit. Two City Council members are foregoing their salaries for 2009-2010. City Hall is buckling down in the face of declining revenues due to the ongoing economic downturn.
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The unemployment rate in Waynesboro jumped the 10 percent mark in February, according to figures released on Wednesday by the Virginia Employment Commission. The rate was at 10.3 percent, more than double the 4.9 percent rate in the city in February 2008. There were 629 more people out of work in Waynesboro in February 2009…
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Waynesboro might soon be thinking green. “I would really like to see us working toward some green initiatives,” Waynesboro City Councilwoman Lorie Smith said at Monday’s City Council meeting, selling the idea of having the city use its waynesboro.va.us website to encourage more green-friendly thinking among city residents and having the city government work to…
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The Battle of Waynesboro – March 2, 1865. It was a month before Appomattox, and what happened here had something to do with what happened there at the formal end of the Civil War. AFP editor Chris Graham explores the Battle of Waynesboro by telling the stories of those who help preserve the living history….
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The new management team of the Waynesboro Generals met with the local news media Wednesday night to talk about its plans for furthering its involvement with the local Waynesboro-Augusta community. AFP editor and new Generals general manager Chris Graham shares highlights from the news conference and shares how you can become part of the community…
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The Waynesboro Generals are announcing today that Chris Graham of Waynesboro has been named the team’s new general manager. Graham, 36, is the co-owner of Augusta Free Press Publishing in Downtown Waynesboro and the editor of The New Dominion monthly print magazine and Augusta Free Press Online based in Waynesboro. The Staunton native grew up…
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