Valley League releases 2012 schedule

Chris Graham

Waynesboro opens the 2012 Valley League season with a home game with rival Staunton on Friday, June 1, at 7 p.m. The Valley League released the 2012 schedule on Monday. The 12-team league will be broken up into two six-team divisions. In 2011, there were three four-team divisions. The Generals will meet the Staunton Braves…

Chris Graham: This song is about you

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“I hate hearing myself talk.” “I don’t like to talk about myself.” “I don’t want people thinking I’m too vain.” Got it. Just because you own your own small business, you don’t want people thinking that you think the world revolves around you. Or maybe you’re just, well, shy. Whatever it is, you need to…

WTA presents River City Radio Hour Remembers Christmas

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The second annual River City Radio Hour Remembers Christmas will be presented at WTA’s Gateway in Downtown Waynesboro beginning Tuesday. The production features the Boogie Kings, Gwynne Wood, Marsha Howard, and Barbara Lawson. Vocalists Hank Fitzgerald and Samuel Johnson will alternate. A new treat will be The Barnyard Christmas Pageant by Elizabeth Massie. The comedy…

Police seek iPad thief

Chris Graham

Waynesboro Police are investigating a felony shoplifting of an Apple iPad that occurred at the Waynesboro Walmart on Monday, Nov. 28 between 7:30-7:40 p.m. Police are requesting the public’s help in identifying a male suspect caught on store surveillance cameras breaking into an electronics case and removing an iPad valued at over $400. Surveillance cameras…

Wayne Theatre Alliance to present third annual Christmas Home Tour

Chris Graham

Begin the holiday season with WTA’s third annual Christmas Home Tour featuring some of Waynesboro’s finest homes and special institutions. Wayne Theatre Alliance’s one-day tour begins at 10 am on Saturday, Dec. 3 and continues to 4 p.m. A special option for this year’s tour is the Home Tour Bus which will take visitors to…

AFP plans Fashion Showcase

Crystal Graham

Augusta Free Press LLC has teamed up with MDH Events to present Holiday Fashion Showcase on Sat., Dec. 3, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at The Gateway in Downtown Waynesboro. “It’s a time of year where we all want to be as fashionable as possible,” said Crystal Graham of Augusta Free Press. “As part…

Chris Graham: Get your business in the paper

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“My husband,” the caller was telling me, or I should say, selling me, “is an expert at finding financing options for people who think they have credit issues.” “OK.” “I think that’s a good news story.” I didn’t. Actually, what this clearly was to me was an attempt by a small-business owner to get a…

Concert to benefit hospice group

Chris Graham

The Waynesboro Seventh-Day Adventist Church will be hosting its third annual Christmas Benefit Concert to support Augusta Health Hospice of the Shenandoah on Thursday, December 1 beginning at 7 p.m. This free-will donation event is open to the public and will be a fantastic evening filled with festive talent while raising funds for Hospice of…

Habitat honors local volunteers

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Staunton-Augusta-Waynesboro Habitat for Humanity’s Hope for Homes Gala honored Fund Tom Montgomery, owner of Old Colony Construction in Staunton, for more than 14 years of outstanding service in philanthropy. Montgomery noted that he enjoyed supporting Habitat and his other causes because it was more fulfilling to give during his lifetime and see the benefit firsthand….