
Homesteading Skills Workshop Day
A Better Way Farm & Goat Dairy will be having a Homesteading Skills Workshop Day on Aug. 1 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

A Better Way Farm & Goat Dairy will be having a Homesteading Skills Workshop Day on Aug. 1 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Delegate Dickie Bell, R-Staunton, announced Thursday that he has been chosen by the Speaker of the House of Delegates to represent the Commonwealth at the 64th Annual Southern Regional Education Board’s Annual Legislative Work Conference. The conference will take place in Napels, Florida from June 27 through June 29.

The Summer issue of the Y Magazine, which highlights fitness, child-development and senior programs and activities at the Waynesboro YMCA, is available for pickup at the Y and will be mailed to members in Waynesboro and Augusta County in the coming days.

The Central Shenandoah EMS Council honored the dedication and commitment of its emergency medical services providers at the council’s regional awards ceremony June 3 at Gypsy Hill Park in Staunton.

I wrote a few weeks ago about how the 2015 UVA baseball team wasn’t an NCAA Tournament team, and cited chapter and verse as to why I’d come to that conclusion (synopsis: pitching, defense, holes in the lineup, lack of depth, but mainly, pitching).

Crossroads to Brain Injury Recovery announced that Amy Homan DePoy of Rockingham County and Jessica James of Harrisonburg and Dr. Linda Meyer of Waynesboro have joined as new members of the Board of Trustees.

The Shenandoah Valley Art Center, during the months of June and July, is exhibiting the works of SVAC member artists, in an exhibition judged by Jennifer Vaughan.

Virginia State Police Sr. Trooper D.C. Brydge is investigating a fatal crash in Augusta County. The crash occurred May 28, at 11:28 a.m., at the intersection of Routes 250 and 285.

Project GROWS educational farm for youth is partnering with Altenergy Inc. in Staunton to install solar panels on its 10-acre farm site in Verona to power the farm’s walk-in cooler.

Governor Terry McAuliffe and the state Board of Education announced last week that 252 schools and four school divisions earned 2015 Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) awards for advanced learning and achievement.
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