
First Bank to celebrate grand opening of South Region Headquarters in Staunton
First Bank will celebrate the grand opening of the newly renovated South Region Headquarters at 1 West Frederick Street in Staunton on Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon.

First Bank will celebrate the grand opening of the newly renovated South Region Headquarters at 1 West Frederick Street in Staunton on Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon.

United Way of Greater Augusta announced its recent hire of Sara Blevins, who will join the United Way team in a new position that will help area residents find the human services they need while also helping coordinate part of the Valley VITA program.

The Waynesboro YMCA year round competitive swim team, SMAC, competed in the LY 2015 YMCA October Invite, October 17th and 18th. The meet was held in Lynchburg at the Jamerson YMCA and was the first short course meet of the season for SMAC. Short course meets are those that are competed in a 25 yard pool.

Last spring the athletis directors of Hargrave Military Academy, Fishburne Military School, Massanutten Military Academy, and Randolph-Macon Academy wanted to start a football conference for their military schools, and the Patriot Military School Conference was born.

The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton VDOT transportation district during the coming weeks. The Staunton district is comprised of 11 counties: Alleghany, Bath, Rockbridge, Augusta, Highland, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Frederick, Page, Warren and Clarke.

As the political season heats up, it seems that the rhetoric regarding big bad greedy banks is at the forefront of discussions. As a community banker in Virginia for several decades, I have witnessed firsthand the importance of banking institutions to their communities and their local economies.

“I’ve got to find that head. There can’t be that many places to hide it; besides, I thought I already knew where those places were…” Thus begins one of the chilling and occasionally funny Halloween tales to be offered by award-winning storyteller Barbara Spilman Lawson at the 31st annual Ghost Stories program at the Staunton Public Library on Oct. 24.

The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton VDOT transportation district during the coming weeks. The Staunton district is comprised of 11 counties: Alleghany, Bath, Rockbridge, Augusta, Highland, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Frederick, Page, Warren and Clarke.

Each year, the Community Benefit Committee of the Augusta Health Board of Directors awards single-year and multi-year grants to non-profit and governmental community partners for programs that address the health priorities identified in the most recent Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA), and that closely align to the mission and strategic initiatives of Augusta Health.

Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro are under a Freeze Watch overnight Saturday night into Sunday morning.
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