Third annual Mad Hatter’s Easter Festival April 23

Chris Graham

Waynesboro will once again welcome spring to the Valley with the annual Mad Hatter’s Easter Festival on Saturday, April 23. The Mad Hatter and the Moms Club’s White Rabbit will open the gates to the Easter Festival in Waynesboro’s Constitution Park at 10:30 a.m. For the next three hours, the park will be the place…

Chris Graham: Switch in district lines could aid Dems

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The conventional wisdom to the proposed legislative redistricting that would move Waynesboro into the 20th House District along with Staunton is that Republican Del. Dickie Bell gets Waynesboro in his district. I’m usually not big on conventional wisdom, and I’m certainly not in this case. I’ve written columns over the past couple of years about…

AFP Pubishing: New Dominion Tourist launches print edition

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The inaugural print issue of The New Dominion Tourist hit the streets on March 31, 2011. Stories in the Spring/Summer issue included: Home base: Be a tourist in your own hometown Grapes of Ridge: Barren Ridge Vineyards carving out reputation for fine wine Pizza and good tunes: Shenandoah Pizza has become a Staunton music hotspot…

Spears honored as Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year

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John Spears thought his job at the Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce annual dinner was to help Waynesboro YMCA executive director Jeff Fife sell tickets to this Friday’s Y Spring Gala. He was in for a surprise. “I’m going to get somebody. I can tell you that,” said Spears, the youth-sports director at the…

New website features Y Childcare

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Waynesboro YMCA Childcare is now online with its own dedicated website – with the help of Augusta Free Press LLC. “The childcare staff and I are so excited about the childcare website. This is our opportunity to show the community the hands on learning and fun that take place at the Y,” said Waynesboro Y…

Bah, humbug: More snow on the way?

A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for the Augusta-Staunton-Waynesboro area beginning at 4 a.m. Wednesday and running into Wednesday night. The National Weather Service is forecasting the possibility of 1-3 inches of snow – mainly at higher elevations and on grassy surfaces. Wet snow is expected to develop before sunrise early Wednesday morning and…

Hearing on CDBG grant application set for City Council meeting

Chris Graham

Waynesboro City Council is holding a public hearing on Monday night on a proposed application for a Community Development Block Grant to fund downtown improvements. The effort to build an application for submission for the grant has been led by the city, Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. and the Waynesboro Redevelopment and Housing Authority. In spring…

Bolling to headline Fly Fishing Festival Foundation Dinner

Chris Graham

Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling will be the keynote speaker at the 11th annual Virginia Fly Fishing Festival Foundation Dinner on Saturday, April 16, at the midpoint of the two-day festival in Downtown Waynesboro. Bolling, an avid fly fisherman, has been working with the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and other outdoors organizations to promote…