
Kathe Maneval announces candidacy for re-election to Waynesboro School Board
School Board Chairman Kathe Maneval has announced her intention to run for re-election to the Ward D Seat on the Waynesboro School Board.

School Board Chairman Kathe Maneval has announced her intention to run for re-election to the Ward D Seat on the Waynesboro School Board.

Virginia head football coach Mike London announced today the hiring of Mike Archer as a defensive assistant coach. Archer returns to Virginia after spending the 1991 and 1992 seasons at UVa as the linebackers coach on George Welsh’s staff.

Members of Congress have announced a deal on the “Farm Bill” and it just passed the House by a 251-166 margin. It will now move to the Senate. 103 Democrats voted against the Farm Bill on concerns that cuts to the food stamp program were draconian. And they’re right.

As Mary Baldwin College prepares to open the doors to the Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences in June, it is already announcing plans to expand curricular offerings.

The Headwaters Soil and Water Conservation District signed a three-year grant agreement with Valley Conservation Council to aid in the implementation of conservation practices, particularly livestock stream exclusion fencing, in the Upper Middle River watershed.
The Headwaters Soil and Water Conservation District signed a three-year grant agreement with Valley Conservation Council to aid in the implementation of conservation practices, particularly livestock stream exclusion fencing, in the Upper Middle River watershed.

A $2,500 grant to Bridgewater College from the Enterprise Holdings Foundation will fund the purchase of an electric-powered utility vehicle for use in the college’s recycling program.

The Shenandoah Valley Art Center, during the month of February, as a tribute to art education is exhibiting the artwork of the Shenandoah Valley Governor’s School of the Visual Arts, located in Fishersville serving gifted junior and senior high school students of the Augusta County, Staunton, and Waynesboro Public Schools.

Bridgewater College will celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. Day and King’s legacy again on Wednesday, Jan. 29 when Wil Haygood, the author of The Butler: A Witness to History, speaks in Cole Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Amid continued concern over incidences of school violence, a majority of Virginians feel the schools in their community are safe, according to a new Commonwealth Poll released last week by VCU.

Virginia Tech President Charles Steger announced today that Whit Babcock will become the university’s next athletic director. Babcock has served as athletic director at the University of Cincinnati since 2011.
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