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A City Waits to Learn How Much Its Air Is Worth
Northrop Grumman wants permission to release up to 24.9 tons of volatile organic compounds into the air above Waynesboro every year.
Published on The Shenandoan • 
A Historic El Niño Is Forming. Here’s What It Could Mean for Snow in the Shenandoah Valley
A Wetter Winter Is Coming. Snow, Ice, or Rain Is Still Anyone's Guess.
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Staunton Is Growing Again, After a Decade That Wasn’t
Staunton’s population hit 26,801 people in the Census Bureau’s newest estimate, dated July 2025
 • Brad Thomas
City Says No Data Center Planned for Staunton Crossing, Points to Zoning as Backstop
Staunton’s zoning ordinance does not permit data centers in any district, by right or through a special use permit, so there is no existing allowance to…
 • Brad Thomas
The Stauntonian: Volume 1, Issue 37 | Plans, Pressure & Patios
City Council votes tonight on Staunton's next twenty years, Waynesboro's schools face another closed week and questions about who leads next, and…
 • Brad Thomas
The Stauntonian: Volume 1, Issue 36 | Gunfire, Grants & Gypsy Hill
Two shootings shake the valley in a single afternoon. A stabbing on Orchard Avenue leaves one woman dead. And more than 90 artists take over Gypsy Hill…
 • Brad Thomas

August 2026

The Stauntonian: Volume 1, Issue 35 | Devout, Debris & Deception
A world premiere brings Guiding Light home, the city’s second heavy trash run gets a date, and a phone scammer forgets Staunton actually checks its…
The Deer, a Zoo, a Grave, and the Springs: How Gypsy Hill Park Became What It Is
137 years, a buried water system, a superintendent’s private zoo, and a segregation history the city is only now paying to fix.
The Man With Three Harpsichords and a $500 Budget
Staunton Music Festival returns for its 28th season on August 15, ten days and thirty concerts built from what its founder still calls, without much…
 • Brad Thomas
A Warehouse, A Cattle Stockyard, and A Business Manager Who Couldn’t Make Payroll.
How Staunton ended up with the only re-creation of Shakespeare’s indoor theater in the world
The Stauntonian: Volume 1, Issue 34 | Rails, Rhythm & Roaming
Staunton’s Amtrak station is getting a $15.6 million federal facelift. SummerFest ‘26 takes over downtown for a Saturday celebration. And the Valley's…
 • Brad Thomas
The Bug That Won: What the Spotted Lanternfly Means for the Shenandoah Valley
It had spread too far and too fast to contain.
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