Greenville News

You gotta mix water in the coffee at the Pilot truck stop in Greenville, otherwise you'll get the jitters.

GREENVILLE - A man wanted by Staunton police on outstanding warrants threatened suicide early Monday morning by holding a crossbow to his throat, keeping county authorities at bay for three hours, according to Sheriff Randy Fisher.

The Augusta County Board of Supervisors voted Wednesday to proceed with a fire and rescue station for the Riverheads area, and the hope is that the station will be up and running by the fall of 2010.

VERONA - Augusta County will build a fire and rescue station near Greenville, an area supervisors said is under served by emergency responders.

FISHERSVILLE - Wilson Memorial took down Robert E. Lee in four games 25-21, 25-22, 19-25, 25-17 in Southern Valley District volleyball action Tuesday night.

GREENVILLE - Alice Virginia Thorne Butler, 81, of Greenville was called home Wednesday, Sept.

An elderly driver and her daughter were killed by a train Wednesday afternoon after the driver tried to zig-zag through two lowered railroad crossing arms on Offliter Road.

GREENVILLE - Parry McCluer downed Riverheads 25-16, 22-25, 25-22, 25-14 on Monday night in nondistrict volleyball action.

GREENVILLE - Jerry W. Doyle, 73, of 469 Spitler Circle, Greenville, went to be with the Lord, Wednesday, Sept.

Sim Franklin Fitzgerald and Tina Marie Adams, both of 14 Fitz's Lane, Greenville, were married Aug.

Tina Adams and Sim Fitzgerald were united in marriage Aug. 28. The ceremony was officiated by Ray Fitzgerald.

STAUNTON - Owen Loney of Greenville, a 2009 honors graduate of Riverheads High School, recently received Staunton-Augusta Rotary Club's $1,000 Lew Morrison Jazz in the Park Scholarship.

GREENVILLE - Opponents of health care reform voiced concerns Sunday that the proposed bills would be too costly, restrict patients' choices and could push the country toward socialism.

Augusta County deputies said they found an 11-year-old boy high from smoking marijuana and huffing aerosol while in the care of two intoxicated teenage women.

STAUNTON - A woman called authorities Monday after she noticed her ex-boyfriend tailing her along Greenville Avenue, according to the Augusta County Sheriff's Office, resulting in the arrest of a Waynesboro man.

GREENVILLE - U.S. Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner have received invitations to participate in a town hall meeting on health care in Augusta County.

GREENVILLE - Christina Nicole Hipes, who died Aug. 13, 2009, also is survived by her father, Kenneth L. Gordon; stepmother, Debbie; siblings, Jessica and Ryan; grandmother, Mary Lou Gordon; aunts and uncles, Mickey and Ann, Karen and Rick and Jeff and Terri Gordon; cousins, Bradley, Daniel, Emily and Natalie Gordon and Justine Poole, Jackson and ...

MIDDLEBROOK - India Farrar Spradlin and James Rondal Hemp Jr. were united in marriage May 16.

Rain is helping cool off a house fire that started just after midnight Sunday . It happened in Greenville on Broadhead School Road.

Woodturners to show, auction off work: Woodturners of the Virginias will converge Saturday at Frontier Culture Museum.