The Stauntonian: Volume 1, Issue 11 | A Poet, a Rescheduled Closure, and a Mailer That Set Off Augusta County

The light is stretching past seven, and Staunton is, as usual, producing more news than any town its size has any right to.

A photo of downtown Staunton taken early last Summer.

This week, a local teenager claims the state’s top poetry prize. The I-81 closure that didn’t happen last weekend is coming back around on Saturday night. A political mailer landed in Augusta County mailboxes and touched off a fight now drawing the state attorney general. And at the Blackfriars, Sherl…