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A public-input meeting to discuss a draft water-quality improvement plan for segments of South River and Christians Creek on the state “dirty waters” list will be held in the City Council Chambers at the Charles T. Yancey Municipal Building in Downtown Waynesboro on Wednesday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. The draft plan will be presented…
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The last time before today that there was a significant rain event in Waynesboro, 200 gallons of diesel fuel ended up in the South River in the vicinity of the Invista plant on DuPont Boulevard. How the diesel fuel made its way into the river on July 29 is still a mystery. “At this time,…
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The crimes for which Teresa Lewis pleaded guilty were horrendous. She plotted with two men, with whom she and her 16-year-old daughter were having a sexual relationship, to kill her husband and stepson. She provided the money to purchase the murder weapons. The plan was to split the money from a $250,000 life insurance policy….
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Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer talks with the news media in advance of his team’s game on Saturday at North Carolina State. Opening Statement I’m really proud of our football team to go up to Boston College and beat a good football team. I thought we play exceptionally hard, I thought we hung in…
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Florida State football coach Jimbo Fisher talks with the news media in advance of his team’s game on Saturday with Virginia. Pretty good defense you’re facing this week? “Very good, they are 12th in the country, and seventh in scoring. You go watch VMI, watch Richmond, they are a very go program and then go…
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North Carolina State football coach Tom O’Brien talks with the news media in advance of his team’s game Saturday with Virginia Tech. On Josh Czajkowski “That’s Jerry Petercuskie’s specialty. He talks with them—they have their own meetings. They have their own séances, so he can talk to them and figure it out. I would probably…
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Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer talks with the news media in advance of his team’s game on Saturday at North Carolina State. Opening Statement I’m really proud of our football team to go up to Boston College and beat a good football team. I thought we play exceptionally hard, I thought we hung in…
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Is it an outlier? Or is all the other polling showing the Robert Hurt-Tom Perriello race in the Fifth District to be tight wrong? Another SurveyUSA poll gives the Republican challenger Hurt a big lead over the Democratic incumbent Perriello. The 58 percent-35 percent lead in the most recent poll, released on Tuesday, is identical…
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The Board of Directors at Frontier Community Bank has promoted Alan Sweet to the position of president and CEO. Sweet succeeds Wayne Turner, who has served the Virginia community banking industry successfully for more than 33 years. Sweet joined Frontier while it was organizing in 2007, and was instrumental in guiding Frontier through the variety…
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Virginia football coach Mike London talks with members of the news media about his team. UVa. (2-1, 0-0 ACC) will host Florida State (3-1, 1-0 ACC) on Saturday at noon. Q. I have a question that doesn’t really pertain to this week’s opponent, but when you scheduled two FCS teams, did you think there might…
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