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The future is technology and its applications, and you could say that technology and its applications define the present. “We would like to think the old brick-and-mortar will be here forever, but everybody out here is trying to save money. Why would a bank employ 10 people to handle transactions that they can process better…
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The United Way of Greater Augusta has tapped on three community leaders to head up its 2010 fundraising campaign. Joseph and Lisa Rosenberger will serve as co-chairs of the campaign, and G. Leonard Pittman Jr. will serve as the leadership chair for the campaign. Joseph Rosenberger is the founder of Rosenberger Financial Services located in…
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The Waynesboro Police Department is asking for the public’s help in tracking down a man wanted in connection with the sexual assault of a 15-year-old Augusta County female. Anthony Duane Martin, 24, is wanted on five felony warrants in relation to the Sept. 18 incident in a northeast Waynesboro residence. Police do not have a…
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Advance Auto Parts Inc., a leading automotive aftermarket retailer of parts, batteries, accessories and maintenance items, today announced it will open its first store in Fishersville at 32 Windward Drive, Suite 120 on Thursday. Company officials said they chose this location for the store because it’s convenient to where their customers live and shop as…
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The Shenandoah Resource Conservation and Development Council will join fellow RC&D Councils throughout the United States to commemorate RC&D Week, which runs from Sept. 19-25, 2010. RC&D Week is held annually to celebrate the success of the RC&D Program nationwide. During RC&D week, the Shenandoah RC&D Council will be presented with the Southeastern Association’s “Outstanding…
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Authorities have not been able to get much in terms of information from the woman arrested late Sunday night outside the office of Augusta Free Press Publishing. Nora Ellen Gibson, 44, was charged with tampering with a vehicle and obstruction of justice in connection with the incident, which was reported to police around 10:45 p.m….
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We’re all getting older, but the senior population in the Greater Augusta area is also getting bigger. Sixteen percent of the area’s population is 65 or older, according to a study commissioned by the Augusta Health Foundation, a third more than the state average. Policymakers are putting more attention on the growing senior population. “I’m…
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The message on the review field at Fishburne Military School on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America – thanks. “That day, those individuals gave of themselves for their fellow man. That’s something that first responders do every day,” said Gary Critzer, the director of emergency services in Waynesboro, at…
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The United Way of Greater Augusta has received $52,842 to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the Greater Augusta region. The monies were granted to The Salvation Army of Waynesboro and Staunton, the Valley Mission homeless shelter and the Verona Food Pantry. A local board made up of religious leaders, civic leaders, community leaders…
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Interesting week for me in my often overlapping roles as a business writer and politics writer. On Wednesday, I met with U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat, after a roundtable in Staunton with local business owners and business leaders who gave Warner quite the earful about the state of business and the state of the…
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