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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Wayne Theatre will open in a year or two with a fully formed programming schedule that will get going this summer in a familiar venue a block down Main Street. “The opportunity to sublease the facility at 329 West Main could not come at a better time. We are looking towards the reopening of…
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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…
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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…
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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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