Local JMU students recognized

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Below are lists of students from Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro who graduated, made president’s list or dean’s list during the fall 2010 semester at James Madison University. To qualify for the president’s list, a student must carry a semester course load of 12 graded credit hours or more and earn a GPA of 3.900…

Forecast: 5 inches of snow possible Wednesday

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A Winter Storm Watch is in effect for Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro for Wednesday. The National Weather Service is forecasting mainly snow with a little mix with sleet at the outset. Accumulations of 5 or more inches of snow are possible. The snow is expected to begin Wednesday morning and to continue into the…

Superstars of Pro Wrestling meet and greet at Staunton Mall

Chris Graham

Awesome Wrestling Entertainment superstars Carlito, Jimmy Wang Yang, Luke Gallows, Short Sleeve Sampson, Sonjay Dutt, Traci Brooks and Robo-Tron will take part in a meet-and-greet with fans at the Staunton Mall on Saturday, Feb. 5, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will take place in advance of the big AWE Superstars of Pro…

Y swim team excels at Maryland Winterfest

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The Waynesboro Y Swim Team (the Shenandoah Marlins Aquatic Club, SMAC) traveled to the University of Maryland Jan. 8-9 to compete against all of the Northeast YMCA swim teams. The following 30 SMAC swimmers qualified and competed in the highly competitive meet: Keegan Abar, Jessie Arnold, Matt Bihl, Peyton Brooks, Lexi Campbell, Bobby Carey, Chris…

Help the Wildlife Center name its new hawk

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The Wildlife Center of Virginia, a leading teaching and research hospital for wildlife, is enlisting the help of area elementary-school children in coming up with a name for a Red-tailed Hawk – an non-releasable hawk that will soon be visiting schools as one of the Center’s environmental ambassadors. Earlier this month, the Wildlife Center contacted…

Wildlife expert: Extent of impacts of Gulf spill will never be known

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Backing a recently released final report on the 2010 BP oil spill, a local wildlife expert said it is likely that the oil company responsible for the 208 million-gallon spill into the Gulf of Mexico will likely get away with paying for little or none of the damage, and that the federal government’s efforts to…

Health officials: Flu ‘widespread’ in Virginia

Chris Graham

Flu activity has reached the “widespread” stage in Virginia, and activity also has increased lately in the Central Shenandoah Health District. Local health departments are seeing an increase in case reports, and local hospital emergency departments and urgent care centers in the health district are also starting to see cases. “The flu season got off…

Busy 2010 at the Wildlife Center

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The Wildlife Center of Virginia, an internationally acclaimed teaching and research hospital for wildlife and conservation medicine located in Waynesboro, admitted a total of 2,303 animals for treatment during 2010 – injured, ailing, and orphaned wildlife from all across Virginia. During 2010, the Center treated: 1037 mammals, including 299 Eastern Cottontail Rabbits; 223 Eastern Gray…

Winter Weather Advisory in effect

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The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for the Augusta-Staunton-Waynesboro area through 9 a.m. Tuesday. Freezing rain will mix in with snow and sleet with possible accumulations of a tenth of an inch of ice and little or no snow and sleet accumulation. The freezing rain will change to rain early Tuesday…

Legacy names Gauldin as new president

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Teresa Gauldin is blazing a new trail for women in business. Gauldin has been named president of the Waynesboro-based Legacy Group Holding Corporation, a conglomerate of construction businesses including Mathers Construction Team, March Excavating LLC and Augusta Erectors Inc. Gauldin, who had most recently served as president of Augusta Erectors Inc., and will assume the…