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THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2016 • WWW.NEWSLEADER.COM
STAUNTON — Three streets in Staunton will remainclosed through early summer for repairs.
Portions of Bridge, Green and Stuart streets have beenclosed off since February as the city works to upgrade an un-dersized storm drain system to alleviate flooding and waterdamage on Vickers Way and several surrounding streets, arelease said.
Rain, rain and more rain delayed the project, which wasexpected to be completed by May 30. Detours are availablefor each road being repaired.
Storm sewer capacity will be increased from Vickers Wayto Buttermilk Spring Run, and several city utility lines will berelocated, a release said.
Other projects in the area, like the Waynesboro MainStreet Bridge demolition and rebuilding, are still on sched-ule.
Ken Slack, spokesman for the area’s Virginia Departmentof Transportation, said many of the projects haven’t been toodelayed because of the rain.
“Some of our paving and line painting operations experi-enced wet-weather delays, but I haven’t heard of any majorproblems,” he said. “It’s still early in the paving season, so ourcontractors will have a chance to make up for any lost time.
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PHOTOS BY MIKE TRIPP / THE NEWS LEADER
Continued work on storm drain upgrades keep sections of Bridge and Green streets closed in Staunton on Wednesday.
LAURA PETERS [email protected]
STREET CLOSUREUNTIL SUMMER
An excavator drops a large rock into a waiting dump truck aswork continues on storm drain upgrades.
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STAUNTON — Richard “Dick” Ham-rick Jr, former president of HamrickFuneral Home, died Tuesday at AugustaHealth.
He was 90 years old.Hamrick was ahead of his time, ac-
cording to friend Charlie Culbertson.“Dick was interested in saving the
photographic history of our communitywhen no one else was,” Culbertson said.“He scoured antique shops for local pho-tos and even went diving in the trashcans of The News Leader, which threwout tons of old photographs.”
Culbertson, who writes history col-
umns for The News Leader, collaborat-ed with Hamrick on several occasions.
“He saved them all, and because ofhim, we can look through a window intoour past — a past that might have beencompletely lost had it not been for DickHamrick,” Culbertson added. “I workedwith him on several stories, and he wasalways generous with his time and re-sources. He will be missed.”
Hamrick served on many boards andlocal organizations such as StauntonYMCA, the Staunton Augusta Communi-ty Chest, the Staunton United Way andthe Staunton-Augusta Chamber of Com-merce, according to his obituary.
Hamrick was one of the foundingmembers of the Augusta County His-
torical Society and was very civic-mind-ed and a community leader, according toNancy Sorrells, a member and formerpresident of the historical society.
“His biggest contribution was hislove of history and his preservation ofour historic collections,” Sorrells said.
Hamrick was one of the first archi-vist for the historical society.
“A lot of them would have been lostnow,” she said. “Dick Hamrick single-
handedly preserved our history. If itwasn’t for Dick we would have lost ahuge amount of our history, and he in-spired lots of people to do what he wasdoing and preserve things.”
Rick Chittum, current president ofthe historical society, had known Ham-rick for a number of years with his in-volvement with the society.
“I was always so impressed with hisdedication,” Chittum said. “He was avery intellectual person, a very goodwriter and always had a lot of wisdomand a lot of insight.
“He always had a good story to tellthat kind of described human nature
LAURA [email protected]
Richard Hamrick, formerpresident of Hamrick FuneralHome, died at 90. He wasone of the foundingmembers of Augusta CountyHistorical Society.
See Hamrick, Page 2A
Staunton’s Dick Hamrick dies
STAUNTON — At a ceremony Tues-day, the Community Foundation of theCentral Blue Ridge gave 72 nonprofitsmore than $250,000 in grant money.
The grants represented the culmina-tion of a competitive process throughwhich nonprofit organizations servingStaunton and Waynesboro, and the coun-ties of Augusta, Nelson and Highlandsubmit detailed applications.
This year, the Community Foundationreceived 81applications, requesting a to-tal of $543,043.
The foundation assembled a team ofcommunity members to deliberate on
CommunityFoundationgives $250Kin grants 72 area nonprofits receivefunds out of 81 applicantsMEGAN [email protected]
See Grants, Page 2A
RICHMOND — Virginia Gov. TerryMcAuliffe said Wednesday that federalinvestigators looking at donations fromhis 2013 campaign have told his attorneythere’s no indication he did anythingwrong.
The governor said on a WTOP radioprogram that his attorney reached out tofederal prosecutors following reportsthat McAuliffe is a subject of a federalinvestigation.
“My lawyer reached out to the JusticeDepartment, and asked if they’ve hadany indication of any wrongdoing on mypart, and the answer was no,” McAuliffesaid.
His attorney, James W. Cooper, and aJustice Department spokesman did notimmediately return requests for com-ment.
A law enforcement official told TheAssociated Press earlier this week thatMcAuliffe is the subject of a federal in-vestigation related to campaign finance.
McAuliffe:Feds havefound nowrongdoingASSOCIATED PRESS
See McAuliffe, Page 2A