Ashland News

Celebrate Memorial Day weekend with fireworks, music, concessions and more beginning at 5:30 p.m. today at Rocketts Landing.

A horrific accident at a wood plant sent a man to VCU Medical Center Thursday night.

The first Street Party was a wonderful event: the weather was perfect, the band was great, and the dancers all so talented! If you missed this one, mark your calendar for the next one on Saturday, June 16 - the Saturday after the last day of school.

The Virginia Biotechnology Association has named board member Jeff Gallagher as interim executive director, while it looks for a permanent leader.

Ashland, VA May 20, 2012 - Soave Enterprises is proud to announce that the award-winning master planned community from Anthony Soave has been announced as the 6th top selling master-planned community according to RCLCO and John Burns Real Estate Consulting.

The Ashland Town Council approved a $7.86 million budget for Fiscal Year 2013, which spans July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013.

After 36 years, four superintendents, eight terms as chair and countless hours of service to Hanover County Public Schools, Sue Forbes Watson announced she would not seek reappointment as Ashland representative on the School Board.

The Vintner Group, a wholesaler and importer of fine wines based in Ashland, VA, announces the appointment of Brian Koziol, MS as Florida Sales Director for Stacole Fine Wines.

The Ashland Theater in Ashland and Meadow Farm in Doswell are on the Preservation Virginia endangered historical sites list released earlier this week.

Amber Lewis, left, and Alexis Tillman, right, from Shiloh Baptist Church, donned period costumes and portrayed Ashland residents Hannah and Annie Shelton during Saturday's centennial celebration of the Cross Bros.

"The last 12, 16 months have been some of the most trying that I've experienced [as a member of the Virginia General Assembly]." That's how Sen.

Sue Forbes Watson, longest-serving school board member in the Richmond region, is stepping down from the Hanover County School Board.

May is a beautiful month, isn't it? Ashland is just awash in color, and the dog-days of summer haven't started yet.

When all events at the Meadow Event Park were canceled due to bankruptcy of the State Fair of Virginia, 278 Caroline High School seniors were left with no place for graduation.

Photo submitted by Cristi Lawton Jimmy Goodman, far right, puts in some required "sweat equity" by working alongside another Habitat volunteer to install siding on Wendy Morgan's home.

Bobby Brajdic, a freshman at Randolph Macon College in Ashland, has set new school swimming records in five events.A He is studying biology and is a member of the Theta ChiA Alpha fraternity.

The district begins just west of the intersection of routes 1 and 54, and it stretches west down Route 54 beyond the train tracks and through the commercial area.

Cross Brothers store interior in 1928. Fom left, Walter N. Cross, Tom Lane, Esther Brooks Schwartz and Pat Patterson.

The clock is still running on the federal investigation into Henrico County Public Schools.

Ashland voters will decide which of five candidates will fill the three Town Council seats up for grabs in today's election.