Markham News

This Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011 photo shows the local post office in Markham, Va. The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service sought Wednesday, May 9, 2012 to tamp down concern over wide-scale cuts, revealing it will seek to keep thousands of rural post offices open with shorter hours.

We made a special trip this Father's Day weekend, venturing out to Markham, Virginia to go cherry-picking at i»¿Hartland Orchardi»¿ . It is sour cherry season, a variety of cherry that many enjoy fresh, but they also make excellent pies and jams.

Interstate 66 is closed -- totally closed, in both directions -- at the 22.5 mile marker, west of the Delaplane exit in Fauquier County, for a vehicle crash and fire.

A detour has been established on Interstate 66 in western Fauquier County to route traffic around the scene of a vehicle crash and fire just west of the Delaplane exit.