
Staunton District Traffic Alert: Week of Sept. 27-Oct. 1
The following is a list of highway work that may affect traffic in the Staunton District during the coming weeks.

The following is a list of highway work that may affect traffic in the Staunton District during the coming weeks.

The current situation with COVID-19 at Augusta Health is “the most serious it has been since the beginning of the pandemic,” said Mary Mannix, the president and CEO of Augusta Health, in a video posted to Facebook.

Augusta Health has issued an email appeal to the community to support vaccine requirements and continue to mask in public and follow social distancing guidelines in the face of an ongoing local COVID-19 surge.

The new COVID-19 case rate in Augusta County is down 15.7 percent from a week ago, but case numbers are up in Staunton and Waynesboro, according to an analysis of data from the Virginia Department of Health.

Before her election to Waynesboro Commissioner of the Revenue in November 2017, Sabrina von Schilling worked for two years with the Department of Social Services and then as chief deputy in 2016.

As Augusta Health COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to surge, the new case rate in Augusta County continues to more than triple the rate statewide.

Residents of Staunton, Augusta, and Waynesboro are invited to bring household hazardous waste materials to the Government Center in Verona for proper disposal and recycling on Saturday from 8:30 a.m. until noon for the annual Household Hazardous Waste Day.

Augusta Health set another dubious record over the weekend, with 120 new positive cases reported over the 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. on Sunday.

Virginia Organizing will hold an event on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. outside of Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline’s local office in Staunton to call on Congress to expand funding for health care, specifically mental health care.

A 3-year-old placed in the care of a Waynesboro woman who has been reported missing is now also considered missing, as the story involving an Augusta County man wanted on several charges has taken another dark turn.
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