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…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (566+ words) The United States takes a distinctly different approach to supplement regulation, primarily governed by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994. Under this legislation, dietary supplements occupy a unique category – neither food nor drug – with regulations administered by…...

5+ day, 20+ 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, 1+ hour 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, 16+ 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, 22+ hour ago   (203+ words) A Waynesboro man was found dead this morning in a vehicle partially submerged in Lake Nelson in Arrington. Graham Isaac Bolter’s body was found in the driver’s seat, according to the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies arrived just after 7 a....

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (312+ words) Recently I phoned Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline’s office regarding the proposed repeal of the Roadless Rule for the national forests. Mr. Cline’s email response stated falsely that the Roadless Rule “prohibits road construction, reconstruction, and timber harvest.” The Pew…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1108+ words) Electric utilities can ask for kilowatt increases every three years from the State Corporation Commission. Currently, the A-15 residential tariff allows the Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative to charge 6.38 cents per kW up to 800 kW and 9.024 cents for over 800. Every year this…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (387+ words) Two families who were evicted from a Smith Mountain Lake campground in 2020 after the campground’s owner found out that one of the campers in their group is Black have finally collected on the $750,000 verdict awarded to them by a jury…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (409+ words) Keeping people from falling through those gaps is HEART’s job. Increasingly, the team is leveraging Peregrine Technologies to do it. Because HEART is part of the police department, its staff are authorized to see certain police records that help them…...