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Project GROWS is proud to announce they are the recipients of a multi-year grant from the Augusta Health Foundation to reduce childhood obesity in Staunton, Waynesboro and Augusta County. Project GROWS stands for Growing Responsibly & Organically With Sustainability and focuses on the reduction of childhood obesity through creating youth-based community gardens and teaching the…
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Augusta Free Press LLC joins H-R Chamber Augusta Free Press LLC has joined as a new member of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce. The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1917, works to influence public policy and partners with groups in tourism, the arts, economic development, workforce, technology, downtown revitalization, higher education and law enforcement…
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Ginger Quillen showed up for her volunteer job at the Waynesboro YMCA on Monday bundled up like it was winter, and not 70 degrees. Somebody asked her about the extra layers of clothes, noting the warm early-spring temperatures. “It’s cold when you’re coming down the hill on 13th Street,” responded Quillen, who had to cover…
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The effort led by Mathers Construction and the Waynesboro Generals to provide a concession stand for the new youth-baseball facility in Waynesboro’s North Park is rolling along. The 24-foot by 24-foot structure is on pace to be completed by Friday, April 1. The concession stand is a final piece in the puzzle for the renovation of…
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The Rocktown Rollers women’s flat-track roller-derby team will open the home portion of its 2011 schedule when it hosts the River City Rollergirls’ Poe’s Punishers squad on Sunday, March 27. The family-friendly bout, titled “Et Tu, Brutal?”, will be held at Funky’s Skate Center in Harrisonburg, with the doors opening at 4 p.m. and bout…
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Eastern Mennonite University senior Todd Phillips (Waynesboro, Va./Waynesboro) can already note his playing career as being a part of the most successful stretch in EMU basketball history. Now he continues to add individual honors that make him one of the most decorated players in Eastern Mennonite history, as he was recently named All-American by two…
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The Waynesboro Democratic Committee is meeting on Thursday, March 31, at 6:30 p.m. at the Waynesboro Public Library. The purpose of the meeting is to determine the future direction of the committee. Questions about the meeting can be directed to acting committee chair Sara Christopherson at [email protected].
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The Augusta Regional Dental Clinic announced this week that Emily Harding, D.M.D., will join the clinic as a full-time staff dentist on March 22. Dr. Harding is a graduate of the University of Louisville Dental School, where she received her doctorate of dental medicine in general dentistry. She has spent extensive time working in dental…
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AFP is new WDDI Business Patron Augusta Free Press LLC has signed on as a new Downtown Business Patron of Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. WDDI, founded in 2001, is an accredited member of the National Main Street Program and Virginia Main Street Program. The organization follows the Main Street Four Point Approach towards revitalizing Downtown…
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Beginning March 25 motorists will encounter a paving work zone on Interstate 81 southbound between mile marker 217.66 and mile marker 214. This location is south of Staunton near exit 217 at Route 654 in the Mint Spring area and exit 213 at Route 11 in the Greenville area. Virginia Department of Transportation Staunton District…
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