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As spring temperatures arrive, the Waynesboro Senior Center is kicking off a new walking program for our members. Our inspiration is the One Book One Community book “A Walk in the Woods” by Bill Bryson. Our walking team will be tracking our steps with pedometers and averaging our distance each week in an attempt to get to 545 miles which is the length of the Virginia part of the Appalachian Trail.
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Down to its final strike with two outs in the ninth inning, the No. 4 Virginia baseball team rallied for a 7-6 victory over Wake Forest Saturday afternoon at Gene Hooks Field at Wake Forest Baseball Park. Mike Papi (So., Tunkhannock, Pa.) hit a two-out grand slam off Wake Forest closer Connor Kaden to give UVa a 7-6 lead, capping a five-run, ninth-inning comeback.
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Kieran Burke made 23 saves for No. 4 North Carolina (8-3, 2-1 ACC), lifting the Tar Heels to a 10-7 win on Saturday over the No. 18 Virginia Cavaliers (5-6, 0-2 ACC), in front of 6,787 fans inside Klöckner Stadium. Despite winning almost every statistical category over UNC by a large margin, UVa has lost five games in a row for the first time since 1966.
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Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe has agreed to a schedule of five debates across the Commonwealth of Virginia after he was certified this week as the Democratic Party nominee.
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Ben Verlander went 3-for-5 with a home run and Josiah Burney drove in three, including an important two-run shot in the eighth, as Old Dominion opened a Colonial Athletic Association baseball series with a 7-4 win over James Madison on Friday night at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park.
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The Waynesboro Police Department is investigating a commercial burglary that occurred in the city overnight. Employees arrived at work this morning to open Check into Cash located at 113 Lew Dewitt Boulevard and discovered the business was burglarized.
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Kathy Johnson, owner of Murder is a Game … and other pastimes, has just returned from Lansing, Mich., where she presented a seminar on “Getting Away with Murder at Your Campground” on March 26, for the Michigan Association of RV & Campground Owners.
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After I graduated college from Washington and Lee University, I moved to Brooklyn to take a job with Lord and Taylor as an assistant buyer in…wait for it… women’s moderate blouses.
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A New York man was killed and two other men were injured in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 81 Thursday night (April 4, 2013) in Augusta County.
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) today asked Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to take action to protect military families from unsafe levels of lead in drinking water. Recent tests at two Hampton Roads Navy child care centers found lead in drinking water that far exceeded Environmental Protection Agency safety levels. Lead exposure has been found to cause serious medical issues including permanent damage to the brain and nervous system, which can result in behavioral and learning problems. Sen. Warner urged Secretary Hagel to confirm that appropriate testing has occurred at other military facilities across all branches of the military services.
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