The Stauntonian: Volume 1, Issue 38 | Growth, Grumman & Guardianship

Staunton outpaces its own growth forecast. And Waynesboro presses DEQ on a defense contractor's air permit. And a state watchdog renews its call to close Staunton's youth psychiatric hospital.

This Week at a Glance

Staunton’s population hit 26,801 in the Census Bureau’s newest estimate, a number that breaks a forecast the region’s own planners built just five years ago, and it lands the same month City Council adopted the very document meant to plan around growth like it.

A second DEQ hearing on Northrop Grumman’s Waynesboro air permit drew re…