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Waynesboro Police Chief Douglas Davis was sworn in as president of the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police on Tuesday during the annual VACP conference held this week in Reston. Davis serves on the association’s Training Committee and Virginia Highway Safety Committee. He is a graduate of the Virginia Police Chiefs Foundation’s Professional Executive Leadership…
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The Valley Alliance for Education 2010 Annual Reception was held last night at Robert Plecker Workforce Center at Blue Ridge Community College in Weyers Cave. The annual reception is held each year to honor grant winners as well as teacher of the year for Staunton, Augusta County and Waynesboro Public Schools. The audience that was…
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Taylor Sandeur and Drew Turocy were first-team All-Valley League selections, and Cody Hudson was named to the All-Valley second team, in selections announced on Saturday. Sandefur was dominant on the mound for Waynesboro in 2010, going 7-0 in 13 appearances, including eight starts, with a 2.26 ERA. Sandefur, a 6-2, 245-pound freshman from Western Carolina,…
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Tim Leather had a rocky top of the first in his first start of the season, but after getting out of the bases-loaded, one-out jam with no damage, Leather was dominant, pitching seven scoreless innings to push Waynesboro to a 4-3 win over Front Royal in Game 2 of the teams’ first-round playoff series Friday…
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The United Way of Greater Augusta is sponsoring the Stuff the Bus event going on all weekend in the parking lots at the Waynesboro and Staunton Wal-Marts Friday and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m until 8 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. Executive Director Cynthia Pritchard was on the scene Friday morning…
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Heavy rain creating poor field conditions have once again delayed Game 2 of the Waynesboro-Front Royal first-round Valley League playoff series. The game will be completed on Friday at 7 p.m. at Mathers Park at Kate Collins Field. The contest had gotten under way on Wednesday night, but was put into a delay with the…
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Riley Murray knew he was onto something. “I got to know people in Roanoke by blogging and they invited me to come down to the Drinking Liberally meeting. I went and thought, Why not do something like that here in Staunton?” said Murray, who founded a local chapter of Drinking Liberally in December 2008. The…
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The United Way of Greater Augusta kicks off its three-day Stuff-the-Bus project on Friday. This year buses will be located at the Staunton and Waynesboro Wal-Marts. The United Way, Waynesboro city schools and UPS, along with other volunteers, will be working to help area children and youth arrive at school with the tools they need…
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A two-RBI Alan Stoupa single gave Waynesboro a 2-1 sixth-inning lead, but Front Royal responded with four in the bottom of the sixth, the big blow a two-out, three-run homer by Sean Jamieson, and the Royals took Game 1 of the teams’ Valley League first-round playoff series, 6-2, Tuesday night. Jarryd Summers (2-2) took the…
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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced on Tuesday that DuPont will invest $20 million to establish a facility in Chesterfield County to make the first nanofiber-based polymeric separators for high-performance lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles and many other potential commercial uses. The facility, an early commercial-scale plant to produce the new material for this growing market,…
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