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DuPont Community Credit Union announced the 20 scholarship winners at the 53rd Annual Membership Meeting earlier this week. Since beginning the scholarship program over $192,000 has been awarded to high school seniors, and 92 seniors applied this year. “We are very pleased to provide scholarships to this year’s 20 recipients,” said Everett J. Campbell, chairman…
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I was accosted, for lack of a better word, the other day while walking on the new greenway trail by a gentleman who couldn’t believe that I didn’t agree that City Council shouldn’t “stick it to” the School Board for the School Board’s supposed lack of foresight regarding payments on the renovations to Kate Collins…
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The Shenandoah Valley Art Center, during the month of March, is exhibiting mixed media artwork by Milenko Katic. Katic was born in Serbia and grew up in Belgrade. He studied medicine for three years until he discovered his love for art. He studied drawing and painting with Professor Sergije Jovanovic’. Dali and Magritte influenced his…
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DuPont Community Credit Union recently announced that Peter Santana has been promoted to vice president of lending. “We are very happy to have Peter join DuPont Community Credit Union’s senior management team,” said Gerald B. Hershey, DCCU President/CEO. “Peter’s dedication to our members is well known, and his experience and knowledge in the lending arena…
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The news Sunday that former School Board Chair and City Councilwoman Lorie Smith has thrown her hat into the ring for a seat on Waynesboro City Council was a jolt in two ways. One is the fact that Smith, who had long been known to be considering a run, finally pulled the trigger. Two is…
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Raymond Reed, a long-time resident of Waynesboro, project manager and supporter of Staunton–Augusta-Waynesboro Habitat for Humanity, passed away last March. But his dream to create housing for working poor families didn’t because he and his wife, Peggy Reed, share the same vision. At a recent volunteer dinner Peggy Reed was recognized for her work stepping…
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It was a cold January day, but it was also a Friday afternoon, and the youngsters at the Boys & Girls Club were getting restless. Going outside on this wintry day wouldn’t mean basketball, as it usually does on the blacktop courts off East Main Street. Waynesboro High School soccer players Eric Chandler and Matthew…
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Not a lot makes sense with the politicians these days. And no, I’m not ranting about how Congress is talking about raising taxes on working-class and middle-class families at the risk of pushing the economy back into another recession. Looking here at my hometown of Waynesboro, where the City Council suddenly wants accountability from its…
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C. Phillip Barger, 83, FMS ’45 and a former trustee and executive committee member of the Fishburne-Hudgins Educational Foundation, passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, in Charlottesville, Virginia. One of the school’s most loyal alumni, he was a charter member of the Colonel Young Brigade and with his son-in-law John Conrad had donated the…
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I’ve known Dickie Bell for more than a decade. And the Dickie Bell that I know, I like a lot. This other Dickie Bell, the one who comes across as a hard-core social and fiscal conservative, I don’t know him that well, but I understand what’s going on there. Back when Dickie first got the…
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