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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Talk about ambitious. Charlottesville-based Octagon Partners gave itself 10 months to rehab the old R.E. Lee High School on Churchville Avenue into senior housing and new spaces for ShenanArts and the Staunton Senior Center. And Octagon and general contractor Mathers Construction of Waynesboro are coming in a little ahead…
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Coverage by Chris Graham [email protected] The four candidates for Waynesboro City Council met today in what will be their only joint appearance in advance of the May 4 city elections. The candidates forum at the Waynesboro Senior Center put on display the contrasting styles and visions of the candidates for the open Ward C…
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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] What is that distinct, almost overpowering aroma? Spring hath sprang, or is it sprung? – sounds like something just broke – in the Valley of the Shenandoah, so fling wide the doors, throw up the window sashes (bet they’re sticking because they, although inanimate objects, innately…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Outdoor Life lists one place in Virginia among the “Top 200 Towns for Sportsmen.” Yep, it’s Waynesboro, now known as The River City, where 10 years ago city and downtown-business leaders were striking out in their turns at bat in trying to figure out a way to turn the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Don’t call Bob Satterwhite and ask him to line you up with a green job. It’s not quite to that level yet, but the $5 million federal grant to the Shenandoah Valley Workforce Investment Board announced earlier this year is moving us in the direction of being on the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It wasn’t an easy call for Theodore Payne to make. He was taking early retirement from DuPont so he could dive full time into the ministry, and the opportunity was there for him to take over as pastor at the church that he had grown up in.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov. Bob McDonnell has amended a bill passed by the General Assembly to insert a prohibition banning breed-based killing of dogs in the Commonwealth.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the City Council Chambers at the Charles T. Yancey Municipal Building, 503 W. Main St., Waynesboro.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov. Bob McDonnell has declared April to be Confederate History Month, but if you’ve read a newspaper or turned on the TV news anytime in the past few days, you knew that already. You also know that plenty of people are plenty mad that he did this, that plenty…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Many folks are familiar with the Orwellian Fox News mantras that the cable-news giant uses for branding: “Fair and Balanced News” and “We Report, You Decide.” We’ve been using the former as a sort of guide to our approach to local news here at AugustaFreePress.com for the past couple…
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