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A New Water Main Takes Shape Under West Johnson Street
Crews are setting valves at Central Avenue as the $4.6 million tunnel project works toward its April 2027 finish.
Oct 30
Did you forget to early vote? Here’s everything on the ballot in SAW
So, you didn’t already early or mail-in vote. That’s alright! Plenty of people vote on election day. Who and what is on the ballot for when someone in…
Published on Lyra Bordelon • Oct 30
The Stauntonian: Volume 1, Issue 44 | Verdicts, Vigils & Votes
A Jury Convicts Two Former Nexus Leaders, Staunton Marks a Month Since Montique Gaston’s Death And Early Voting Closes Saturday
Oct 29
Welcome to Haunton, Virginia
A girl on a depot platform, a hotel basement that served as a morgue, and a campus ghost named Richard. Staunton’s best-known ghost stories, and the…
Oct 27
Station 1 Closes to the Public Thursday, and Jumbo Takes a Seat Until December
Staunton’s oldest working firehouse is getting a new floor and a new kitchen, and the public will have to wait outside for a few weeks.
Oct 26
The Stauntonian: Volume 1, Issue 43 | Silence, Steps & Songs
Shenandoah National Park Keeps Details of a Backcountry Death Close, Staunton Walks One Month After the Walmart Shooting And the Statler Brothers…
Oct 22
Matthew Warner Is Probably Writing Something Terrifying Right Now, and That's a Compliment
Matthew Warner writes horror, makes animated films, and teaches jiu-jitsu. He sat down with the Stauntonian ahead of Halloween to talk about all of it.
Oct 21 • Brad Thomas
The Stauntonian: Volume 1, Issue 42 | Pennies, Patients & Pyrography
Voters Weigh a Sales Tax for School Buildings, Clinic Closures Draw Rallies Across the Valley And a Swoope Artist Burns Away the Background
Oct 15
Burning Away the Background
In a corner of Augusta County called Trinity Point, Heather McCoy spends twenty hours designing a single piece before she lights the pen. She once quit…
Published on The Shenandoan • Oct 14
The Stauntonian: Volume 1, Issue 41 | Ballots, Badges & Blueprints
Voters Weigh a Penny for Old Schools, the NAACP Presses for Answers And Shea House Opens Its Doors.
Oct 8 • Brad Thomas
DEQ Signs Off on Northrop Grumman’s Waynesboro Air Permit
The state permit took effect Sept. 30 and caps the new plant at 24.9 tons of hazardous air pollutants a year. Residents who asked for independent…
Oct 4
The Stauntonian: Volume 1, Issue 40 | Byers, Bike Lanes & Broomsticks
Byers Street reopens as West Johnson Street closes. And a Manassas manhunt ends on I-81 in Augusta County. And VDOT proposes a slimmer Greenville…
Oct 1
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