
Waynesboro Police Department: Foxes rarely pose a threat to humans, pets
Fox sightings are common in the City of Waynesboro and shouldn’t be a cause for concern, according to the Waynesboro Police Department.

Fox sightings are common in the City of Waynesboro and shouldn’t be a cause for concern, according to the Waynesboro Police Department.

Staff writer Rebecca J. Barnabi has written a piece on a Staunton woman who is leading an effort to get the city school system to revisit the decision eliminating Weekday Religious Education, a weekly volunteer-led program with a curriculum presenting a narrow, conservative Christian worldview.

In 2014, Staunton School Board decided to halt WRE briefly and six years ago eliminated the program from Staunton Schools over concern for not enough parental decision and the fact that Bessie Weller Elementary was not accredited.

Welcoming the leaders of Finland and Sweden to Washington on May 19, President Biden said that “what makes NATO strong isn’t just our enormous military capacity, but our commitment to each other, to its values. NATO is an alliance of choice, not coercion.”

Former Staunton city manager Steve Rosenberg has been named county attorney by the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors.

Mortgage rates are higher than they have been since 2008, and a Virginia Tech expert says consumers shouldn’t expect rates to go down anytime soon.

The Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro admitted a juvenile female Peregrine falcon from Richmond on June 17 after the falcon was found on the ground.

The ACC is moving forward with the new football scheduling model proposed earlier this year that will have each program face three primary opponents annually and the other 10 league teams twice during the four-year cycle, once at home and once on the road.

Kathe Maneval, the longest serving member of the Waynesboro School Board, is running for re-election in November.

Massimo Zanetti Beverage will invest $29.1 million to consolidate and expand operations at its roasting facility in the City of Suffolk.
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