
Bell right to work amendment passes Senate
A House resolution to make our Right to Work laws part of Virginia’s Constitution passed in the State Senate on Friday.

A House resolution to make our Right to Work laws part of Virginia’s Constitution passed in the State Senate on Friday.

Building on the success of the Mountains 2 Main Streets’ prior collaboration, tourism departments and Main Street organizations from Waynesboro, Harrisonburg and Luray as well as Massanutten Resort and Shenandoah National Park are proud to announce the next phase of the popular destination travel reward program.


Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today that more than $773,000 in matching grant funds will be awarded to 51 local tourism initiatives as part of the Virginia Tourism Corporation’s (VTC) Marketing Leverage Program.

U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) announced that Virginia housing authorities have received more than $30.4 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Capital Fund Program.

From 4 p.m. Monday through 12 p.m. Tuesday, Virginia State Police troopers and dispatchers statewide fielded 3,363 calls for service statewide.

The Waynesboro Y year round competitive swim team, SMAC, (Shenandoah Marlins Aquatic Club) hosted a tri meet against CYAC (Charlottesville Y Aquatic Club) and Staunton Y on January 31.

What gets 13 girlfriends to the theatre on a Thursday night in February? A school night? A weekday? No surprise that it was the Fifty Shades of Grey movie. This wasn’t a movie that I could ask my husband to go to with me. But it didn’t take much convincing to round up a circle of friends to go to Zeus Digital Theaters in Waynesboro on opening night.

The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank today announces that Abena Foreman-Trice has joined the nonprofit as its new director of communications.

Little in the recorded history of Augusta County is as intimate and revealing as are the handmade quilts so carefully created by Valley women a century or more ago.
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