
Staunton District Traffic Alert: Work schedule for May 31-June 4
Updated list of highway work that may affect traffic in the Staunton District during the coming weeks.

Updated list of highway work that may affect traffic in the Staunton District during the coming weeks.

The Harrisonburg-Rockingham County and Waynesboro chapters of Virginia Organizing are holding a protest outside the Augusta County Government Center next week to call for a no vote on jail renovations and expansion at the Middle River Regional Jail.

A local organization is having another record-breaking year. And it is doing so not by raising the most money, hitting the most home runs or awarding the most scholarships. This organization is helping baby rabbits, injured opossums and birds of prey, orphaned fawns and orphaned bear cubs.

Augusta Health has administered 75,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine. More than 38,000 people have been fully vaccinated at Augusta Health clinics.

Deonte Laron Harris, 31, was released from the hospital and arrested by UVA PD on the outstanding warrants.

In 25 years as an educator, Dr. Sharon Barker spent 15 years as principal of Dixon Elementary and then Ware Elementary School in Staunton before coming to Waynesboro Schools last year and continuing to follow her passion.

Fishburne Military School Superintendent Mark Black is stepping down from his post, the Fishburne-Hudgins Educational Foundation Inc., the governing body of FMS, announced Monday.

A Black Lives Matter march and vigil has been set for 6 p.m. Tuesday in Downtown Waynesboro to mark the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.

After four years leading the growing cycles of tillage, planting, cultivation and harvest on The Farm at Project GROWS, Laura Faircloth, director of farm operations, is stepping down.

Just as we get a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, there might be a chance of crawling out of this totalitarian cesspool in which we’ve been mired, we get kicked down again.
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