VERONA — Augusta County Supervisors cited difficult economic times Wednesday night in a split 3-3 vote that postponed architectural work on the next phase of a renovation at the Augusta County Public Library in Fishersville.

At 83, Russell F. Wilson is more than three decades removed from his days as a Navy commander, but he’s still serving his country.

Thousands of private counselors are offering free services to troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with mental health problems, jumping in to help because the military is short on therapists.

A wide-eyed young boy carefully examined a gleaming bayonet as its owner, Civil War re-enactor Waverly Adcock, watched with a smile.

It will be a little more expensive next fall for full-time students to attend Blue Ridge Community College and the other 22 Virginia community colleges.

Fort Defiance High School took first-place honors at the Virginia Envirothon earlier this week at James Madison Universty.
The team from Fort Defiance will now travel to Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz. in July to compete in the Canon Envirothon.

Campus crime committed by teachers is rare. But bomb threats made by teachers – such as the notes allegedly planted around Shelburne Middle School in February by a special education instructor – are almost unheard of, experts say.

Following in the footsteps of her husband, Mary Beth Smyth, who graduated from Mary Baldwin College in 1947, received the school’s Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award in recognition of her service, character and spiritual qualities.
“It was certainly something I never expected to receive,” Smyth said. “I was happy to receive it, and I’ll always think of it and enjoy it.”

It wasn’t about to rain on their commencement.
Sandwiched in between light drizzles, 316 Mary Baldwin College students received degrees and honors during a two-hour graduation ceremony on the Barbara Kares Page Terrace.

Virginia Tech officials say the school has received deposits from 5,601 freshmen for fall 2008, up from 5,215 deposits received last year.

Fishburne Military School will celebrate its 129th commencement today at 11 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church, with alumnus John Thompson speaking.

Fishburne Military School will celebrate its 129th commencement Saturday morning at First Presbyterian Church.
The ceremonies will start at 11 a.m.

STAUNTON - Mary Baldwin College President Pamela Fox does not see herself as the centerpiece of the Mary Baldwin College story.

The Waynesboro School Board has appointed two assistant principals for Waynesboro High School and an assistant principal for Kate Collins Middle School for next year.

When Alycia Knicely wants to provide that extra dose of motivation for her students to read, she sponsors reading celebrations including a recent reading on the farm day.

STAUNTON — The video starts with a young man on a playground who quickly disappears.

Staunton native and America’s 28th President Woodrow Wilson spent eight years in the White House, but he will not be remembered for the changes to the building while he was there, said noted White House historian William Seale.

The interim principal of Stuarts Draft High School for the past four months was appointed the school’s permanent principal by the Augusta County School Board Thursday night.

If the Waynesboro School Board approves the change at its May 13 meeting, there will be a new principal at Waynesboro High School for the next school year.

A $455,145 federal grant will allow history teachers in the Waynesboro Schools and three other Virginia school districts to gain a deeper appreciation of pivotal moments in American history, educators said Tuesday.

Megan Beyer will present the keynote address at this year’s commencement of Blue Ridge Community College on May 10 on the BRCC campus.

The newly renovated Kate Collins Middle School in Waynesboro will be dedicated on Sunday, May 4.