Waynesboro takes steps toward making roads ‘bicycle-friendly’

As time goes about healing wounds, the City Council’s so-called Three Amigos brandish pleasant public faces. This is a product of necessity: Majorities require their constituent parts to remain whole. But whatever the fellas might say when notebooks are open and tapes are rolling, this is plainly not the same trio who assumed power, and apparently other things, a year ago this morning.

Elephants evicted from landfill site on city concerns

Business, mixed-use projects lie in wait

Staunton police arrested two people at 119 1/2 Stafford Street Wednesday night, charging each with underage possession of alcohol.

The Waynesboro City Council agreed during a Wednesday work session to eliminate one of the two furlough days that city employees were to receive in City Manager Mike Hamp’s proposed fiscal year 2010 budget.

Downtown enlivened by Derby 2009

T.S. Eliot, occasionally ill at ease within himself and a chronicler of the phenomenon, wrote of the Mississippi, “The river is within us.” What then might the poet say of Waynesboro, where a river snakes and is eyed suspiciously, as if coiled and ready to strike?

As the big moment finally arrives, organizers battle to lure a new generation of racers

Unemployment rate drops by 2 percentage points in Waynesboro

On any given day, Staunton’s downtown is teeming with people dining, shopping and taking in a play, but officials there say it was not an overnight success story.

Julie Markowitz, executive director of the Staunton Downtown Development Association, said the city has been fortunate to have preserved many of its historic buildings.

Leo Tolstoy famously observed a telling distinction between happy and unhappy families. It is reversed for towns: Unhappy towns are all alike, but every happy town is each happy in its own way. Well, almost. Some ingredients are common, but less so the mixes that stir towns to life. That which rouses one community might not rouse another.

Growing up in Williamsport, Pa., Joey Mason found herself inspired by a family of teachers that included a grandfather who taught middle school math.

From the time she was in first grade, teaching was what young Joey wanted to do. Of her grandfather, she said “I was fascinated with math because he made it look so easy even though it was my worst subject.”

Furlough days, Heritage funding areas examined

The plan led by local developer Bill Hausrath to bring a 12-screen cinema along with retail, offices and housing to the West End is a jolt of good news and a demonstration of the entrepreneurial spirit needed to kindle economic recovery.