Writers’ workshop in Waynesboro

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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] News Leader columnist and cookbook author Mollie Bryan will lead a Waynesboro Cultural Commission-sponsored workshop on “Writing Memoirs, Essays and Columns” on Saturday at Stone Soup Books in Downtown Waynesboro. Bryan is the author of Mrs. Rowe’s Restaurant Cookbook: A Lifetime of Recipes from the Shenandoah Valley. Her essays have…

Vegas trip to raise money for Waynesboro Y

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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro Galleries is hitting the road – and you can follow them all the way to Las Vegas. Owners Kevin Blackburn and Mark Miller are headed out West for the annual Wedding and Portrait Photographers International Conference on March 11. The Downtown Waynesboro-based photographers will be blogging throughout their 5,000-mile…

Taylor enters at-large race in Waynesboro

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Story by Erin Gutzwiller If asked three months ago if running for Waynesboro City Council was an option, Jeremy Taylor would have answered a simple “no.” But since then, the current Waynesboro School Board Ward C representative decided that his “talents can help continue our reputation as a great small city and, at the same…

Waynesboro’s First Bag Lady

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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] “Remember me? You wrote about me a few years ago. Said I was ‘the first bag lady of Waynesboro.’ ” Of course I remembered her. Bonnie Kiblinger. Collects aluminum and just about everything else, takes it all to the recycling center, donates the proceeds to area nonprofits….

Saltimbanco Bus Tour comes to Waynesboro

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Photos by Chris Graham       The Saltimbanco Bus Tour brought a circus-like atmosphere to Downtown Waynesboro Monday afternoon. Four performers from Saltimbanco engaged the crowds in an active street performance. The appearance was a sort of preview for an upcoming series of shows at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville scheduled for…

Saltimbanco Bus Tour coming to Staunton, Waynesboro

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Saltimbanco brings Cirque de Soleil back to its roots of community involvement. And it will be on the streets of Staunton and Waynesboro on Monday through the Saltimbanco Bus Tour. “We created the bus to bring Cirque back to its roots of community involvement by provoking enthusiasm for Saltimbanco through…

Enterprise-zone news big news for Waynesboro

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Don’t underestimate the value of this bit of news. Megan Williamson certainly isn’t. “I have to stress that this is big news. I agree with that completely. We were very excited,” the Waynesboro economic-development director said in an interview for today’s “Augusta Free Press Show,” talking about the announcement on…

Congressman talks economy, Iraq in Waynesboro

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Sixth District Congressman Bob Goodlatte is trying to see the positive regarding recent economic news. “This is the kind of news we need to hear with what is going on in the economy right now,” Goodlatte said while being briefed on recent successes at Clark Manufacturing facility in Waynesboro this morning,…