Support the Waynesboro YMCA Swim-A-Thon
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Support your community, support the Waynesboro YMCA, support your swimmers at this year’s Swim-A-Thon. Pledges to be received by May 15.
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Chris Dillow wins Walmart Bass Fishing League event on Smith Mountain Lake
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Chris Dillow Waynesboro, Va., weighed a five-bass limit totaling 16 pounds, 5 ounces Saturday to win the first Walmart Bass Fishing League Shenandoah Division tournament of 2014 on Smith Mountain Lake. For his victory, Dillow earned $6,796.
SWAG Writers presents poets John Most, Sara Robinson, Jeffrey Schwaner, and Angela Marie Carter
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April is Poetry Month! SWAG Writers (The Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta Group of the Virginia Writers Club) Reading Series continues in April with a reading by poets John Most, Sara Robinson, Jeffrey Schwaner, and Angela Marie Carter.
VDOT road report: April 14-18
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The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton VDOT transportation district during the coming weeks. The Staunton district is comprised of 11 counties: Alleghany, Bath, Rockbridge, Augusta, Highland, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Frederick, Page, Warren and Clarke.
JMU, William and Mary split Saturday baseball doublheader
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JMU rallied from a two-run deficit in the ninth inning on a tying two-run double from senior second baseman Conner Brown (Richmond, Va./Godwin) and redshirt sophomore Kyle Weston(Penn Laird, Va./Spotswood) singled in the winning run for a 9-8 win over William and Mary after dropping the first game of a doubleheader 13-5 on Saturday at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park.
JMU’s Kirby Burkholder named CAA Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year
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James Madison senior Kirby Burkholder (Bridgewater, Va./Turner Ashby) is the 2014 CAA women’s basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the Colonial Athletic Association announced today.
Shroud of Turin Presentation at Price Rotary Senior Center
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On Monday, April 7, the Price Rotary Senior Center welcomed Dr. Ray Schneider to talk to our members about the mysterious Shroud of Turin.
Virginia becomes first state to file brief in support of Chesapeake Bay restoration
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Attorney General Mark R. Herring today announced that he has filed an amicus brief to protect Virginia’s efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay and to defend the right of Virginia and other Bay states to work together to protect and restore the Bay.
Letting corporations skate on taxes undermines life on Main Street
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Many politicians spin this as a “spending” crisis, claiming, “There just isn’t any money.” Nonsense. Corporate profits are at an all-time high. The stock market has soared along with CEO bonuses, and yet corporate taxes have fallen to about a fifth of their profits.
Larry Wills: Proposed tax rate increase not an easy call
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The recent decision by the Augusta County Board of Supervisors to advertise a five cent tax rate increase was not an easy one, nor was it a decision that was undertaken without a thorough examination of the proposed County budget and a review of the County’s current and upcoming needs.
