16+ hour, 6+ min ago   (136+ words) VDOT has released an updated list of road construction and maintenance projects for the local area for the week of Sept. 14-18. Scheduled work is subject to change due to inclement weather and material supplies. When traveling through a work zone,…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (222+ words) Before you get too upset about how little Waynesboro is set to get from the 2026-27 School Security Equipment Grant program administered by the Virginia Department of Education, keep in mind, the applications would have been filed weeks ago. Which is…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (187+ words) An 18-year-old is in custody following a report of shots fired into an occupied vehicle made on Wednesday night at Sunset Park in Waynesboro. Isiah D. Crawford, 18, is alleged to have fired at the occupied car while bystanders were present at…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (885+ words) The director of media relations at Bridgewater College commented on our AFP Facebook page a few weeks back, on a story that we’d published on the move by the Augusta County Library Board of Trustees to pre-cancel a 2027 Pride event,…...

5+ day, 17+ min ago   (1199+ words) Teachers and support staff inside the Waynesboro Public Schools system think the Waynesboro School Board is rushing to hire Ryan Barber, the current assistant superintendent, to replace Jeffrey Cassell, who has served as superintendent since 2013, before Cassell’s retirement becomes effective…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (138+ words) Westwood Hills Elementary School will not reopen on Wednesday, as school system officials work through determining a timeline for the school’s reopening, after a shooting at the school last week. The school system, in the Facebook post, advised parents to…...

6+ day, 8+ min ago   (796+ words) A crash report is a document, not an event. Counting documents and counting danger are related exercises, but they are not the same one, and in Massachusetts the distance between them is written directly into the law that requires the…...

6+ day, 13+ min ago   (166+ words) A Charlotte man died from injuries in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 81 in Rockbridge County on Saturday. James Earl Phillips, 42, of Charlotte, died at the scene of the accident, at the 189 mile marker on I-81, reported at 12:24 a.m. Per a Virginia State…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (343+ words) As if the Westwood Hills community needs to worry about anything else, some clown from Harrisonburg, over the weekend, made a threat to the school that is still sorting things out from last week’s shooting that our police department had…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (698+ words) Winchester sits at the top of the Shenandoah Valley, about an hour and a quarter west of Washington, and it has quietly become one of the more popular places to land west of the DC metro. Some renters arrive for…...