Project Grows announces vendors for local farmer markets
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Project Grows announced a new vendor to the Verona Farmers Market: Weeks Honeybees.
Search Results for Waynesboro
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Public hearings on July 7 for Augusta County Board of Zoning appeals
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A public hearing will be held regarding numerous requests at the Augusta County Government Center on Thursday, July 7, at 1:30 p.m.
Construction continues on Rosser Avenue at Lucy Lane
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Single lane closures for northbound and southbound will be required on Rosser Avenue in Waynesboro this week as work continues on the Waynesboro Marketplace development.
Why would anybody want to run for Staunton City Council? Erik Curren gives his reasons
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You’d forgive Erik Curren if he’d decided that he’d done his part to help Staunton keep moving forward.
Happy Birthday to us! Augusta Free Press turns 20
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Way back on July 2, 2002, I couldn’t have imagined that I’d ever be writing about Augusta Free Press turning 20. I was just thinking that morning, as we were about to hit the publish button for the first time, about how we were going to keep the lights on, and the website that we had just launched that day didn’t figure prominently into those plans.
‘Voice of the Keydets’ Wade Branner retiring after 39 years with VMI Athletics
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I’ve had the great fortune to have been able to work with Wade Branner, “the Voice of the Keydets,” for eight years, and I have to say, I was today years old when I realized he’s in his early 60s.
Should local school systems carve out time for Weekday Religious Education?
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Staff writer Rebecca J. Barnabi has written a piece on a Staunton woman who is leading an effort to get the city school system to revisit the decision eliminating Weekday Religious Education, a weekly volunteer-led program with a curriculum presenting a narrow, conservative Christian worldview.
Staunton woman starts petition to reinstate religious education in schools
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In 2014, Staunton School Board decided to halt WRE briefly and six years ago eliminated the program from Staunton Schools over concern for not enough parental decision and the fact that Bessie Weller Elementary was not accredited.
Enhancing school security is good, but you probably won’t know what’s being done
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For all parents who have school-aged children, the events on May 24 in Uvalde, Texas have put many on edge. It’s increased stress, tension, worries, and it has raised the question, “are our schools safe?”
Obesity epidemic: Virginia is getting a little thicker around the middle
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Data from BarBend.com looking at obesity levels in Virginia over the past 10 years reveals that just two of the Commonwealth’s 135 cities and counties have lower obesity rates than they did a decade ago.
