
Fall Household Hazardous Waste event
Augusta County’s Annual Fall Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event will be held from 8:30 a.m. until noon Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Augusta County Government Center in Verona.

Augusta County’s Annual Fall Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event will be held from 8:30 a.m. until noon Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Augusta County Government Center in Verona.

The new superintendent at Fishburne Military School is a familiar face in the FMS community. Gary R. Morrison, a 1981 graduate of Fishburne who also served on the faculty and later as the director of admissions, was named to the top administrative position at the school at a meeting of the Fishburne-Hudgins Educational Foundation Board of Trustees.

A group of cinema lovers – cinemaniacs, they call themselves now – had this neat idea a couple of years back. We’ll get together the first and third Mondays to watch a classic movie, then talk about it after. From that basic plan sprang the Classic Cinema Club.

Bring the whole family and join Waynesboro Parks & Recreation and Fly n’ High Flags & Kites for a day of fun at Coyner Springs Park – Saturday, Sept. 29, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

A new “signature” show takes the stage of WTA’s Gateway on Friday, September 7. The performance is the creation of The River City Boys who have been delighting area audiences with their musical style. The Boys approached the Wayne Theatre Alliance with a proposal to combine their singing with other area talents, not unlike the vaudeville shows the Wayne Theatre was designed to offer. Their proposal was readily accepted.

The University of Virginia Darden School of Business is proud to announce the winners of the 2012 Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards Competition.

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded a Youth Literacy grant in the amount of $3,770.55 to Wenonah Elementary School in Waynesboro.

Following the success of five years of Community Read initiatives, the Community Foundation, together with the Staunton Public Library, the Augusta County Library, and the Waynesboro Public Library, is working to plan the 2013 One Book One Community.

WTA’s Gateway will begin its second fall season in September with the addition of four new series. Joining the “Signature Shows” at the venue will be the River City Boys’ Jamboree, the Custin Jazz Night, the Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge’s Family Performances and a monthly history lecture. The new series will expand the variety of entertainment WTA’s Gateway has brought to the area.

Unemployment continued to inch upward in July in Staunton and Waynesboro, while the rate in Augusta was down slightly from where it was in June.
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