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Riverfest brought environmental education for children of all ages to Downtown Waynesboro on Saturday, April 25. AFP editor Chris Graham was on hand to get a few snapshots from the programs and seminars on the agenda for the day.
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Interesting development at Thursday night’s Waynesboro City Council work session – where Mayor Tim Williams broke ranks with the libertarians-disguised-as-conservatives on the Council on the tax rate. “That’s the conservative way to go,” Williams said, expressing support for maintaining a 70-cent property-tax rate for the 2009-2010 budget year, citing the bigger picture that has the…
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I remember the first few years of Riverfest, back on the schedule for Saturday, which got its start in Downtown Waynesboro on the South River in the late 1990s as what came across to me as the biggest tree-hugger event of all time in this part of Virginia.
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It might sound strange, but if smoking takes five minutes of our lives away, it is still not as bad as not being able to properly utilize our time. The biggest crime that we can possibly commit to ourselves is letting time get away on useless pursuits. The very first step to correcting this major…
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Earth Day is April 22, just around the corner, bringing with it a stark reminder of the importance of protecting our environment and natural resources. The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970. Nearly four decades later, and despite the difficulties in our economy, protecting our environment is still center stage. In fact, protecting the…
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On April 22, people across the country and around the world will celebrate Earth Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness about the plight of our natural resources and taking real action to make a difference. For decades, while Americans in towns and cities across the country have worked to make a difference in their…
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“I think, and some of you all might disagree with me, I think nuclear power has to be one of the options. I don’t think we can take coal off the table. In fact, we’re building a new coal plant down in Southwest Virginia, but we ought to make that the place that gets carbon-capture…
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You might think that any credit being given out for the Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. fundraising effort that met with such success as to preclude the need for an infusion of city funds to keep it afloat would go to, well, the folks at Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc.
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One of the great things about living in an urban environment is being able to walk around town to get some exercise and see people and breathe in the fresh air. The efforts of group of parents at a Waynesboro elementary school who are working with the city and the federal government to improve pedestrian…
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