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The Stauntonian: Volume 1, Issue 31 | Hearings, Highways & Heroes
Staunton's downtown lane-reduction test drew heavy pushback in survey results presented to council. Waynesboro residents pack a three-hour hearing to…
Jul 30
The Street That Almost Wasn’t Saved
Beverley St is now one of the best-preserved Victorian main streets in America. In 1965, the city knocked down 32 historic buildings a block away, and…
Jul 29 • Brad Thomas
Staunton Already Has a Superhero. Let's Make It Official.
SWallCrawler has spent four years volunteering across the city without asking for recognition. A Change.org petition is asking for it on his behalf.
Jul 28 • Brad Thomas
A Perfect Weekend Trip in Staunton
Everything worth seeing on foot is within a mile of everything else.
Published on The Shenandoan • Jul 26
The Stauntonian: Volume 1, Issue 30 | Injunctions, Emissions & Encores
A statewide gun law injunction leaves Sheriff Donald Smith’s defiance moot. Waynesboro gets its say on Northrop Grumman tonight. And Staunton makes the…
Jul 23 • Brad Thomas
Twenty-Two Miles and a Hundred Years Away: Ramsey’s Draft Wilderness
The old-growth hemlocks that made this place famous are dying.
Jul 22 • Brad Thomas
The Church That Ran a County
Trinity Episcopal was Augusta County’s government, Virginia’s capitol for sixteen days, and the keeper of a Tiffany glass collection most locals have…
Jul 22 • Brad Thomas
The Stauntonian: Volume 1, Issue 29 | Firearms, Fumes & Founding Doctors
An injunction scrambles Augusta County’s gun-law standoff. Wildfire smoke drifts into the Valley as Waynesboro debates 25 tons of new air pollution, two…
Jul 16 • Brad Thomas
The Asylum on the Hill
Western State Hospital opened in 1828 with gardens, a cupola, and a radical idea about healing. Its two centuries since include some of the most humane…
Jul 15 • Brad Thomas
The Doctor Who Made Staunton a Medical Crossroads
An Irish immigrant’s practice near the Augusta County Courthouse trained some of the most consequential figures in American medicine and history
Jul 14 • Brad Thomas
The Stauntonian: Volume 1, Issue 28 | Storms, Statlers & Sticker Shock
A thunderstorm pushes the 250th’s fireworks to nearly 11 p.m. Sunday’s deluge floods Gypsy Hill Park. And a Dominion email means about $8 more a month…
Jul 9 • Brad Thomas
The Stauntonian: Volume 1, Issue 27 | Birthdays, Byers & Betsy Bell
Staunton hosts America’s 250th birthday party at Gypsy Hill Park on Saturday. Tunnel crews reach New Street ahead of schedule. And three new Stauntonian…
Jul 2 • Brad Thomas
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