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On the heels of its most successful year ever in 2011, Augusta Free Press LLC will mark its 10th year in business in 2012. “Our focus in this anniversary year is the same as it has been for us from day one – building on our success both for ourselves and for our growing list…
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Virginia’s Farm Link program is a decade old, and Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmers are working to reboot the program and encourage more farmers and would-be farmers to get connected. “Young farmers are looking for partnerships, not handouts. We want to help preserve farmland by working it,” said Bob Harris, VFBF Young Farmers Committee…
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Augusta Health has become an online partner of AugustaFreePress.com, agreeing to a one-year contract for an ad on the news website promoting the Fishersville-based medical-services organization. Augusta Health is an independent, nonprofit community hospital with a mission to promote the health and well-being of our community through access to excellent care. In 2011, Augusta…
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The RMH-Rockingham County methane gas partnership is one of six environmental sustainability projects around the nation currently being featured by Chevrolet on its website and in its social media. RMH partnered with Rockingham County to channel methane gas produced by landfill waste to the new hospital to use as energy. RMH is one of the…
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WVPT has entered its last month of fundraising through TALENT WAR$ with more than $1,800 donated through more than 40 competing talent videos. The station’s first ever interactive, online, video talent contest and fundraiser, TALENT WAR$ is offering $6,000 in cash prizes. Viewers can vote for their favorite video by donating to WVPT until Jan….
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Gov. Bob McDonnell today announced the Virginia Tourism Corporation will award $635,000 in matching grant funds to 35 local tourism initiatives as part of the VTC Marketing Leverage Grant program. Among the initiatives winning grants were four originating in our local area. – SVTA Outdoor Recreation and Family Travel Marketing Campaign (New Market, Staunton, Harrisonburg,…
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WVPT congratulates Kevin Camden of Charlottesville as the winner of its Fender Telecaster electric guitar giveaway. Kevin Camden, an IT specialist at the University of Virginia, was automatically entered in the guitar drawing after he signed up as a contestant in TALENTWAR$, the station’s first online video talent contest and fundraiser. TALENTWAR$, offering $6,000 in…
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Was it Mother Nature’s idea of improvisation? Participants in the Anabaptist Communicator’s annual conference sat around tables in Martin Chapel at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, mesmerized by actor-playwright Ted Swartz’s reflections on what he believes makes a “good Mennonite actor,” while outside, snow began to cover the EMU campus. It was Oct. 28, too early for frozen…
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The Tourism Association of Greater Waynesboro, in collaboration with the Waynesboro Tourism Office, is pleased to announce a Tourism Tradeshow in support of the area’s travel industry. The event will take place on Monday, October 3 from noon – 6 p.m. at the Best Western PLUS Waynesboro Conference Center. The vision of this event is…
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Nathan Everett, author of The Gutenberg Rubric, will appear at a book signing on Saturday, Sept. 17, 11 a.m., at Bookworks in Staunton. The Gutenberg Rubric is a literary thriller that follows unlikely heroes across two continents in a race against time, terrorists, and Homeland Security. Rare book specialists Madeline Zayne and Keith Drucker discover…
