Cleanup continues despite downpour

STAUNTON — The evolution of a neighborhood starts with its most essential element: the neighbors.

So when a man was mugged on Sears Hill on Sept. 14, his neighbors took their community concerns to Staunton city council. The group asked for advice and help; they asked for attention.

On-time grad rates below average

Kimberly Watters gazes at PowerPoint images depicting her former city’s regeneration, and she is stirred to a kind of sunniness seen here with ecliptical irregularity, which is to say, not often. “It happened there,” Watters says, “it can happen here.”

Staunton’s recently designated Arts and Culture District might get a new name tonight: the “Red Brick District.”

Staunton City Council will consider putting that name in writing so arts and culture and tourism promoters can begin using it in posters and flyers.

Staunton police are seeking information on burglaries at two Churchville Avenue businesses.

STAUNTON — A Churchville man was in serious condition after a Staunton city trolley hit him Tuesday morning.

Leo South, 88, was hit in the driveway of Baldwin Park apartments off Woodlee Road near North Augusta Street, police said.

South was flown to the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, where he was listed in serious condition, according to a hospital representative.

STAUNTON – Small businesses in Staunton will receive a boost thanks to a $200,000 state grant city officials announced Tuesday.

At the George Bowers Grocery in New Town, Assistant Economic Director Amanda Huffman said the SPARC PLUG loan program would provide training, business planning and funding directly to local entrepreneurs and business owners.

A familiar bogeyman is bubbling to the surface again, the form of the thing definable by perspective. Stormwater in the eyes of those tilting left is the kid with the flu symptoms who refused to stay home, a carrier of foul pollutants. Stormwater in the eyes of those tilting right is at least small parts phantom, a mechanism for prying more money, taxes in the form of fees, from businesses already scratching for a different kind of green than environmentalists care to consider.

Group will study stormwater utility

$1.5M sewer project will impact traffic

No signs of intelligent life

Terrors lurk on the Queen City’s streets in the ostensibly innocuous form of sandwich boards, set up on downtown sidewalks by infidel merchants and restaurateurs to advertise such subversive stuff as the dread lunch special.

Schools fall short on list of federal benchmarks

1st half of 2009 sees 4 percent increase from 2008, outpacing surrounding locales

STAUNTON – The groundbreaking ceremony for Gypsy Hill Place was complete, yet four of the Staunton City Council members who used to go to the old Robert E. Lee High School on Churchville Avenue lingered on what used to be the football field to talk about their memories inside the building behind them.