Fort Valley News

View larger image Chris Schmidt, assistant retail manager at Fort Valley Nursery, holds a white poinsettia inside the retail center in Woodstock.

View larger image Glenna Loving, of Strasburg, holds her new book, "White Wolf of the Wolf Clan & Shenandoah of the Blue Clan." The cover shows the abbreviated title and a painting of the fictional Shenandoah over a photograph Loving took in the area.

It's not even Thanksgiving yet, but area Ruritans already are thinking ahead to Christmas lists.

View larger image Shenandoah County Board of Supervisor incumbent, Sharon Baroncelli, speaks to a voter outside the polling station at Central High School in Woodstock on Tuesday.

So many people showed up to protest the recent real estate reassessments at Tuesday night's Board of Supervisors meeting, a special forum to hear their complaints has been scheduled for Thursday evening.

Five bridges in Shenandoah and Frederick counties are among the 119 in Virginia to be replaced or repaired using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, state officials announced Thursday.

After being chastised for linking the name of a Northern Shenandoah Valley treasure to the controversial regional jail, the Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to change the name of the lockup.

Some local artists are intent on saving the Shenandoah River one creative step at a time.

Bryan Elijah Smith of Dayton won the Acoustic Roots songwriting contest in Luray Saturday night at the BB&T Center for the Performing Arts.

FORT VALLEY, SEPT.26 Forest service workers, Cub Scouts, church members and other volunteers gathered together last weekend with a smile on their face to take care of what Mother Earth has given our community.

Wendy Bulatko, of Fort Valley, right, and her daughter, Kathrine, clean a stone monument at Camp Roosevelt Recreation Area in the George Washington National Forest during National Public Lands Day on Saturday.

Just this week, the weather has become decidely cooler, and the fall leaves are definitely beginning to change here in the Shenandoah Valley.

The Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors approved creation of a controversial regional jail authority and an accompanying service agreement Tuesday night.

Two new parcels of land have been put into conservation easement in Rappahannock County one at the foot of Long Mountain, the other in F.T. Valley bringing the total acreage protected by conservation easement in the county to 27,739 or 20.4 percent of all land in the county.

Edward Jones financial adviser Lora Cooper Loving held a grand opening Aug. 15 for the firm's new Mt.

Chef Seth Wells, 22, carmelizes raisins, shallots, garlic and vinegar to make a chutney for his grilled beef shoulder tender for Cafe Nights at Woodstock Cafe & Shoppes.

They say the best time to start a business is coming out of a recession: Less profitable establishments have already gone under, people make career changes , and new opportunities present themselves.

They say the best time to start a business is coming out of a recession: Less profitable establishments have already gone under, people make career changes , and new opportunities present themselves.

The village of Flint Hill and rural F.T. Valley along Route 231 may soon earn designations as historic districts if some local activists have their way.

They say the best time to start a business is coming out of a recession: Less profitable establishments have already gone under, people make career changes , and new opportunities present themselves.