Generals give back

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Trio share book, experiences with students at Berkeley Glenn Story by Jenny Hypes [email protected]   Never give up when things get rough. That was the moral of the story in the book Wilma Unlimited, read by three members of the Waynesboro Generals baseball team to a group of fourth- and fifth-grade students at Berkeley Glenn…

Kratz gets The Call

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Story by James De Boer EMU sports: www.emu.edu   Eight years after graduating from Eastern Mennonite University, Erik Kratz finally got the call he wanted – the call to the big leagues. Kratz, who played for the Waynesboro Generals in 2000, has patiently worked his way through baseball’s minor leagues before getting his big call…

In line at the new Chick-fil-A

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Story by Jenny Hypes Photo Slideshow by Chris Graham   It’s Wednesday morning, 5:30 a.m., and there are 255 people outside the new Chick-fil-A in Waynesboro. One hundred of them won a raffle to hang around for the next 24 hours for the chance at 52 sandwich meals, a Chick-fil-A meal a week for the next…

DCCU reports second-quarter growth

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   DuPont Community Credit Union saw steady growth at the end of the second quarter of 2010 for total lending compared to the second quarter of 2009, it was announced today. The Waynesboro-headquartered credit union, which operates nine branches in the Central Shenandoah Valley region, reported a 0.6 percent increase in total…

Local boater takes home top prize

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   Waynesboro boater Chris Dillow took top honors in the FLW BFL Shenandoah Division tournament held on the James River on Saturday. Dillow caught a five-bass limit weighing 16 pounds, 6 ounces Saturday to win $3,756 plus a $2,000 Ranger Cup bonus. Under cloudy skies, Dillow was junk-fishing around sticks…