Latitudes Staunton Turns 10!

This September is Latitudes Fair Trade Staunton’s 10th birthday! We are thrilled to celebrate with the community – YOU – that has made it all possible. Your purchases help provide opportunity, stability, and dignity for artisans around the world. Every purchase makes a difference. Thank you for choosing Latitudes over the last 10 years and for many years to come! Enjoy giveaways, refreshments, artisan stories, photo ops, fair trade shopping specials and more! Invite your friends, do a little shopping, and let’s celebrate!!!

Staunton Commonwealth Attorney Candidate Forum

Building Bridges for the Greater Good will be holding a Candidate Forum for Staunton’s new Commonwealth Attorney, who will be chosen during the Virginia state elections on November 4 this year. The public forum will take place on Monday, September 15 from 6:00-7:30p.m. at the Staunton City Council Chambers. (Please enter through the basement side entrance on S. Central Avenue, by the Police Station, and take the elevator to the 1st Floor.) John Baber and Joseph Perry are running as independents for this office in Staunton. This forum will provide the public with the opportunity to meet the candidates and hear their views on vital issues, with the goal of enabling voters to make an informed choice, as their decisions and approach will shape our community for years to come.

The Crucible at Staunton High School

Storm Theater presents the acclaimed play by Arthur Miller. Tickets are $10 at the door. September 26 & 27 at 7:30 PM September 28 at 2:30 PM

Shenanarts presents Daddy Long Legs

Jerusha Abbott is the “Oldest Orphan in the John Grier Home” until a mysterious benefactor decides to send her to college to be educated as a writer. Required to write him a letter once a month, she is never to know the benefactor’s identity—so she invents one for him: Daddy Long Legs. Although she knows that he will never respond to her letters, she grows more and more fond of this elusive and kindly “old” gentleman. But another relationship soon begins to develop in Jerusha’s life. Jervis Pendleton is the well-do-do, “youngish” uncle of one of Jerusha’s roommates, who introduces her to a world of literature, travel and adventure. Through her correspondence with Daddy Long Legs and her growing intimacy with Jervis, Jerusha’s letters chronicle her emergence as a delightfully independent “New American Woman.” Yet, there is one startling fact that Jerusha has yet to uncover—a fact that will change her life forever. This show runs September 12-14 and 19-21 Fridays and Saturdays 7PM, Sundays 3PM

Meet the Trees at Mary Baldwin University

Kadrin Anderson, botany professor and tree expert, will lead this walk and discuss significant trees on the historic campus. Meet at the East Frederick Street parking lot just west of North Coalter Street in Staunton. Wear a hat, bring water and free cookies to everyone who makes it up the stairs! Sponsored by Staunton Tree Stewarts and Shenandoah Green.

Devils Backbone Lumberjack Classic Weekend

Hold on to your axes! The 5th Annual Devils Backbone Lumberjack Classic returns to Nelson County for a weekend packed with cold beer, hot saws, and high-octane fun for the whole family! Join us September 19-21 at Devils Backbone’s Basecamp Brewpub & Meadows and enjoy beer and food specials, live music, stein hoisting contests, craft vendors, and more as you watch the top-ranked lumberjacks and lumberjills in the world face off in a series of extreme timbersports challenges. FREE ADMISSION – NO TICKET REQUIRED. Visit www.dbbrewingcompany.com/lumberjack to learn more!