Ashland News

The County Supervisors have changed their minds about the proposed ordinance that would have prohibited solicitation activities on public roads and designated highways throughout Hanover.

Does CPR on an animal really work? You bet it does. Just ask Robb Harvey, an architect and partner in the design firm Architectural Resources, Inc.

Not Furstenberg's rolls. Make 'em yourself to see what they look like. As we head into Thanksgiving, Y&H wants to help you eat like a pilgrim .

The Ashland Youth Recreation Association has settled a lawsuit with a group of parents who claimed the organization's officers, directors and commissioners were withholding financial records and operating under an illegal set of bylaws.

Ashland will 'kick off' the 2009 holiday season with its 40th Old Time Holiday Parade this Sunday, Nov.

The Ashland Town Council Tuesday night approved a lease agreement with the Ashland Community Theater Foundation.

The Ashland Police Department would like to notify motorists of the following road closures in conjunction with Sunday's Holiday Parade, which starts at 2:30 p.m.: Route 54 between Medical Drive and Taylor Street; Henry Street between Route 54 and Archie Cannon Drive Archie Cannon Drive between U.S. 1 and North James Street All parked vehicles must ...

Randy and Kristin Mudd and Lacey Hampton were eager to present the checks to the parents of two Hanover County girls who are been undergoing treatment for brain tumors.

Ten houses in Petersburg and one in Ettrick owned by convicted slumlord Oliver C. Lawrence are being foreclosed on and are scheduled to be auctioned off next week.

Convicted slumlord Oliver C. Lawrence will get to experience life in the Richmond City Jail and one of his own neglected rental properties.

In this April 28, 2006 file photo, convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad gestures as he address judge James L. Ryan during a media preview before the start of his trial in Rockville, Md.

Hanover Safe Place, which deals with cases of domestic abuse on a day-to-day basis, is an agency that would like to be put out of business.

When James D. Martin was shot dead on an early October evening seven years ago in the parking lot of a grocery store in Wheaton, a northern Washington suburb, it got little attention on the nightly news.Early the next morning, a landscaper was fatally shot in nearby Rockville, also by a .223-caliber bullet.

The wheels are once again in motion for two proposed mixed-use developments on Ashland's eastern boundaries.

While Virginia "Gigi" Foster admits she is "thrilled and flattered" to be named the 2009 Christmas Mother, she quickly acknowledges "there's going to be a so much greater need this year." The official announcement of her selection came last Wednesday during a tea at Pebble Hill, the Doswell home of Franklin Flippo Jr.

The election is finally over, and Republicans should be pleased with the results.

The Board of Supervisors approved a Conditional Use Permit to allow construction of the new Black Creek fire station.

Jared Hayslett, 29, works at the Ashland Coffee and Tea as a manger. Last year, Hayslett went on a mission trip sponsored by a Christian Organization to Cambodia.

On a beautiful fall-like Sunday evening with the cool wind lightly blowing, a mule attached to a horse drown carriage rides through Ashland as on-lookers stopped and watched the two young lovers, Zack Attkisson and girlfriend Emma Nero.

The mother of a soldier serving in Afghanistan wants to adopt 50 soldiers for Christmas.