Waynesboro City Councilwoman Lorie Smith on Friday formally announced her bid for re-election as the city’s Ward D representative.

Smith won her seat in May of 2006.

“In large part, my work is not done,” Smith said.

Waynesboro’s three centuries of history that include vibrant industry, railroad travel and a river running through it are all captured in “Images of America: Waynesboro” – a 126-page pictorial history of the River City.

A top Shenandoah Valley economic development official plans to meet with state leaders after Thanksgiving to address immediate and long-term job needs in Waynesboro.

Robin Sullenberger, CEO of the Shenandoah Valley Partnership, said Thursday that he had already discussed this week’s announcement of 110 layoffs at Invista’s Waynesboro plant and other recent job losses in the city with the Virginia Manufacturers Association.

Kate Collins students get ‘once in a lifetime’ history lesson

Judge hands down sentence for starvation, abuse

The man charged in Waynesboro’s largest mushroom bust pleaded guilty in circuit court Wednesday to possessing and distributing the psychedelic drug, which police found stored in more than 100 jars in his apartment.

An ongoing discussion of how to proceed with referendum-approved projects boiled over during a Waynesboro City Council work session Wednesday night.

Council members recently received legal advice about their ability to move bond money between projects that residents voted on in a 2007 city referendum.

Mayor Tim Williams proposed that $1.2 million borrowed to create a West End fire substation instead be used for a Wayne Hills stormwater project that is moving along faster than the proposed station.

A Waynesboro man cried for mercy in circuit court Wednesday after pleading guilty to robbing a gas station.

“I know what I pled guilty to doing wrong,” Kenneth Marsella Reynolds told Judge Humes J. Franklin Jr. “I’m an addict – I’m not here to make anyone mad, I just pray to God. Have a little mercy on me today. Your honor, I will never be in your courtroom again.”

City to seek federal grant after session

Both attorneys listened to the defendant and agreed. Krista Shay Chandler told her story and they believed her remorse. But consequences could not be ignored.

Chandler, 21, appeared before a Waynesboro Circuit Court judge Wednesday, ready to be sentenced for abusing her boyfriend’s toddler in April 2008.

More than 10 supporters attended her hearing, and uttered words of encouragement after Judge Humes J. Franklin Jr. sentenced Chandler to one year in prison and three years of supervised probation.

Housing slump dogging city industries

Invista announces new round of lay offs

Unemployment fell in Waynesboro in September, but rose slightly in both Augusta County and Staunton, according to statistics released Tuesday by the Virginia Employment Commission.

Waynesboro’s rate dropped to 8.2 percent in September compared to 8.5 percent in August.

Crews using four cranes swap old Delphine Avenue span for a new one as a crowd of onlookers watch the action.

Officials: Data showing holes in Waynesboro core will help fill gaps.

nTelos trims local crew, offers early retirement

Waynesboro City Council without discussion Monday night voted unanimously to allow an exotic car dealership to occupy a recently vacated downtown building.

In October, Weldon and Phyllis Scrogham of G&W Motorwerkes on Greenville Avenue in Staunton applied to the city for a permit to relocate their auto sales, service and restoration operation to the recently vacated Grand Home Furnishings building at 518 W. Main St.

WAYNESBORO — City departments will seek to reduce expenses by 5 percent this year and next in an effort to offset decreased state and local revenues.

First-quarter sales, meals and lodging tax revenues have not met budgeted projections, City Manager Mike Hamp and Finance Director Pat Nicosia told the Waynesboro City Council finance committee Monday night.

Republican Stephanie Beverage will be the next Waynesboro treasurer after scoring a huge election night victory Tuesday.

Four years after losing her bid for the seat, Beverage captured 42 percent of the vote in a four-way race that saw the field double last month. Incumbent Treasurer Sandra “Sandee” Dixon mustered just 27 percent of the vote.

Scuffling through the “doctor’s office” portion of the Waynesboro First Aid Crew haunted house, Whitney McCormick rattled off the key ingredients.

“Ten feet, 10 heads and two brains,” she said, motioning to a refrigerator full of appendages. “We’re going to have a surgeon and patient, slinging things around here.”

Homemade ribbon to carry on cancer awareness

The statewide Republican ticket along with the party’s national committee chairman are scheduled to roll into Waynesboro this morning.

WAYNESBORO — City schools officials on Tuesday night heard “less bad” news about anticipated revenue for the 2011 fiscal year budget.

Instead of the $1 million drop in local funding estimated in March, schools can expect a dropoff of half that, or about $500,000, City Manager Mike Hamp said.

Conservative activist and former presidential candidate Alan Keyes offered his prodigious speaking talents Tuesday night to help raise money for ComfortCare Women’s Health.

The organization is a non-profit medical clinic in Waynesboro and Staunton that helps women with life choices, pregnancy confirmation and peer counseling on pregnancy options.

While Keyes was focused on helping ComfortCare, he did express great fear about the state of the country.

Historic home transports visitors

Waynesboro City Council voted unanimously Monday to amend the agreement between the city and state for the Delphine Avenue Improvement Project.

In the amendment, the Virginia Department of Transportation will lift $26,000 of the project’s expense from the shoulders of the city, but will expect Waynesboro to accept more responsibility should the project be delayed or expenses increase, said City Manager Mike Hamp.

WAYNESBORO — No longer afraid of outdoor house lights, a family of foxes has become the night fright of a Waynesboro neighborhood along West Main Street near the Waynesboro Landscaping and Garden Center.

LYNDHURST — For nearly an hour Friday, a seat belt held a Lyndhurst man upside down as he waited for rescuers to cut him from the Ford Explorer he overturned and rammed into a house.

Man donates 27th gallon during chart-topping drive

The Waynesboro Planning Commission on Tuesday night voted in support of two special use permit applications to open car dealerships along Main Street.

G&W Motorwerkes in Staunton, one of Virginia’s few Porsche sales and maintenance shops, recently applied to relocate into the recently vacated Grand Home Furnishings building at 518 W. Main St. A city staff report supported the move and city officials spoke highly of the “marquee-type” reputation of the luxury car dealership.