WAYNESBORO, VA- The City of Waynesboro Economic Development Department is announcing a new flagship program designed to support small business development, called Grow Waynesboro. Focused this year on finding and funding new and robust local businesses, it will award more…
WAYNESBORO, Va (WVIR) - The group charged with revitalizing Waynesboro's downtown area is back with a new name and a renewed mission. Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. (WDDI) is getting a total makeover with new staff and a new marketing push.…
-BY MICHELLE MITCHELL Cake, photo booths, and music showed evidence of a birthday party Tuesday in Waynesboro. However, this was not an ordinary birthday party—the Waynesboro Public Library celebrated turning 100 years old on Tuesday. The library stepped back into…
The city of Waynesboro will use a $25,000 state grant to both help startup or existing entrepreneurs, and to digitize a city guide that offers tips on starting a business. Waynesboro last week learned from Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe that…
WAYNESBORO – Fueled by increases across multiple categories, Waynesboro is grwing in critical ways and posting significant gains. According to online consumer advocacy site NerdWallet, the City ranks high as one of Virginia’s “Cities on the Rise,” based on an…
City of Waynesboro Virginia received a Bronze Excellence in Economic Development Award for its 2014 project in the category of Special Purpose Print Brochure for communities with populations of less than 25,000 from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC). The…
Building Opportunities tO Support Tourism (BOOST – formerly the Micro-Tourism Local Leverage Grant program), serves to support tourism-related ventures of eligible businesses within the City of Waynesboro through the award of grant funding up to $3,000 per entry/event. Qualifying businesses…
News Leader Calvin Trice, ctrice@newsleader.com May 27, 2014 WAYNESBORO — Just wanting someone to do something with your abandoned industrial sites is rarely enough. Not even money or incentives will make it happen. Sometimes, as Waynesboro is finding, it's about…
BOB STUART bstuart@newsvirginian.com The Daily Progress April 3, 2014 A new study of Augusta Health's economic impact says the health system contributed to a total of more than 3,600 jobs in Waynesboro, Staunton and Augusta County and more than $400…
BOB STUART bstuart@newsvirginian.com STAUNTON --When McKee Foods was deciding where to add a mini-doughnut line a couple of years ago, a plant in Arkansas had the advantage over one in Stuarts Draft. But McKee Stuarts Draft Plant Manager Randy Smith…
