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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Willow Oak Plaza in Downtown Waynesboro will play host to a Jungle Safari beginning Wednesday. You can get your picture taken holding a real lion cub, watch monkeys at play, pet and feed the llama and other animals, ride camels and ponies and more. The safari runs through Sunday.
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From Staff Reports The Waynesboro Democratic Committee has called a special meeting for Thursday, May 22, at 7 p.m. to elect a new committee chair. Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham is the only announced candidate for the chairmanship. The special meeting will be held at the Waynesboro Public Library, Room A. City residents who…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] You won’t be in Kentucky, but otherwise you’ll feel like you’re at the Derby. “It will be a mix of high times and old town,” said Phyllis Pendergraft, one of the organizers of Horses and Hats, a Kentucky Derby party being sponsored by the Wayne Theatre Alliance in Waynesboro on…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Downtown Waynesboro will be rumbling with the sound of muscle cars next month. Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. is hosting the third annual Main Street Muscle Car Show on May 17 from 2-5 p.m. No Boundaries will provide the musical accompaniment to the revving engines, with karaoke on the agenda from…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra will offer its Spring Concert on Saturday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church in Waynesboro. The concert will feature Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67,” Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” and Mascagni’s “Intermezzo” from “Cavalleria Rusticana.” Admission is free.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The cook had been blackmailed into poisoning a high-ranking bishop, then naturally was caught for his crime and sentenced to execution. To deter future such crimes, and to distance himself from any apparent involvement in the poisoning incident, Henry VIII arranges to have the man boiled to death. The scene…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A shooting at an unoccupied vehicle at the DuPont Community Credit Union branch on Lucy Lane in Waynesboro may or may not be connected to a series of shootings just up Interstate 64 in Albemarle County. Waynesboro police chief Doug Davis confirmed details of the shooting, which according to a…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I’ve played my fair share of sets on the tennis courts at Ridgeview Park over the years, and so I’m familiar with the notion that it has long since been past time for something to be done about their condition. That big check that you see in the picture to…
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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…
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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…
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