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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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The Blues Lady, Lorie Strother, and The Lady with the Latest, Olivia Rae Frock, will be headlining this month’s “River City Radio Hour” in Waynesboro. The “Radio Hour,” a production of the Wayne Theatre Alliance, the Waynesboro Cultural Commission and Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc., will also feature the second episode in the running series The…
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Health care for the young and the aging was the topic of discussion at a Brian Moran campaign stop at Chickpeas in Downtown Waynesboro Friday afternoon. Moran, a former Virginia state legislator running for the Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination, met with a dozen Waynesboro-area voters today to talk up his health-care initiative, which is aimed…
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Democratic Party gubernatorial-nomination candidate Brian Moran was in Waynesboro Friday to talk up his ideas for improving access to health care for Virginia children. Moran talked with a dozen Waynesboro-area voters at Chickpeas in Downtown Waynesboro at the event. AFP editor Chris Grahan reporting. Length: 8:45.
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Democratic Party gubernatorial-nomination candidate Brian Moran will be in Waynesboro Friday to unveil components of his Healthy Virginia plan to increase health-care access and affordability. Moran will meet and greet Waynesboro-area voters to talk health care at Chickpea’s in Downtown Waynesboro at 2:30 p.m. Friday.
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Democratic Party lieutenant-governor nomination candidate Pat Edmonson will make a campaign stop in Waynesboro Wednesday night. Edmonson will speak at the Waynesboro Democratic Committee meeting being held at the Waynesboro Public Library, Meeting Room A, at 7 p.m. The public is invited to attend.
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