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The Staunton Fire and Rescue Department has been presented with a Life Safety Achievement Award for the year 2010 by the Residential Fire Safety Institute in partnership with the Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company. For 19 years, the Life Safety Achievement Award has recognized local fire prevention efforts that have contributed to reducing the number of…
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The Riverheads Fire and Rescue Station 25 will be holding a Grand Opening/Open House on Saturday, Sept. 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the station at 49 Swartzel Shop Road, Staunton. Activities include a hose-cutting ceremony, an extrication demonstration, a CPR demonstration and more. Refreshments will be provided by the Ladies Auxiliary of…
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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has approved the Staunton Fire and Rescue Department to receive a piece of steel that was recovered from the 9/11 terrorist attack. The Port Authority’s 9/11 WTC Project allows artifacts to be used in memorials open to the public. The piece of steel will be displayed…
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An effort is under way to help a Stuarts Draft family left homeless after a house fire on Sunday. Trent and Marie Showalter lost everything in the fire and did not have homeowners insurance. The family of six, including four children ages 15-22, are staying with neighbors Frank and Michelle Annese, who are leading the…
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It was sometime around 2000 or 2001 when I realized that the way we’ve always done things in Augusta County relative to the provision of fire and rescue service, with the bulk of the work done by volunteers, was no longer sufficient to get the job done. I had invited myself out on a Saturday…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Are Democrats trying to create smoke around the latest controversy involving Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to make people believe that there’s fire? Or is the issue with a sizable donation to the Cuccinelli campaign in 2009 from a veterans group that appears to be anything but the charity that…
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Citizens group hears from City Council candidate Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Ward D Waynesboro City Council candidate Mike Harris introduced himself to a friendly audience Tuesday night, speaking at a meeting of the Waynesboro Citizens for Responsible Spending at the Waynesboro Public Library. Harris, 62, is a Virginia State Police and military veteran who…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Slow down. That’s what the Augusta County Board of Supervisors has decided to do with its work to get a new fire and rescue station in the Riverheads area going. “We just want to make sure that we’ve got the right place, that there are no other places out…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] With AFP Audio Tom Perriello picked a great time to be a freshman congressman, what with the country in January on the verge of the next Great Depression and with so much unresolved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the push from the electorate in the ’08…
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State Del. Matt Lohr on Monday defended the payments from the Rockingham County school system to the motivational-speaking company operated by Lohr and his wife, Andrea, for teacher in-service training conducted by the Lohrs. “It’s $3,000 over three years,” Lohr, a Republican, answered a question from a caller to a live candidates debate featuring Lohr…
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