Mad Hatter’s Easter Parade

Chris Graham

The Wayne Theatre Alliance and the Waynesboro YMCA will welcome spring to the Valley with a fun-packed three hours for children of all ages on Saturday, April 11. The White Rabbit and the Mad Hatter will open the gates to the Mad Hatter’s Easter Parade in Waynesboro’s Constitution Park at 11 am. For the next…

Kaine announces actions on Renew Virginia

AFP

Gov. Tim Kaine announced action on Tuesday on several pieces of legislation related to his Renew Virginia green initiative, including a series of amendments to bills included in the package. – SB 1248 – Northam This bill originally implemented the number one recommendation of the Climate Change Commission: the establishment of a mandatory energy efficiency…

Jim Bishop | Caution: Column under pressure – read with care

Jim Bishop

Stress – a single word that can pack a punch, rendering us weak and powerless. However one defines and experiences it, stress too easily becomes a handy scapegoat for much that ails us. We recite our hectic schedules and point fingers at people who harass us and situations that cause us to rearrange schedules while…

Friday, March 27-Sunday, March 29

Chris Graham

– Local News: Traffic delays on I-64 in Albemarle this weekend, Saturday, 4 p.m. – State News: Prosecutors drop charges against McCain T-shirt scofflaw, Saturday, 4 p.m. – Local News: Community Bank begins food drive, Saturday, 4 p.m. – Local News: VDOT road work schedule, Saturday, 4 p.m. – Local News: Staunton Police warn of…

Multimedia | Move Over, Virginia

Chris Graham

The Virginia State Police and the Virginia Trucking Association are partnering in an effort to make drivers in the Commonwealth more aware of the state’s Move Over law requiring motorists to slow down and move over when possible when encountering law enforcement and emergency-services personnel pulled over on roadsides. AFP editor Chris Graham reports on…

Rick Webb | Bailing out wind energy project is a misuse of stimulus money

AFP

The Highland County Board of Supervisors has unwisely proposed that the Commonwealth of Virginia provide $1.5 million in economic stimulus money to help facilitate the proposed Highland New Wind Development project in order to “enhance the long‐term returns to the county, developer and Commonwealth.”