Mount Jackson News

Religion Calendar Posted 2009-07-04 SATURDAY >>FULL GOSPEL LIGHTHOUSE TABERNACLE, U.S. 33 east of Elkton, will hold services at 7 p.m. with guest speaker Paul LaFontaine.

At some point in time, Gerald Forsburg knew the trip he took to France at the end of high school would come back and make professional relevance.

I was driving home last Sunday from a trip out of town when a huge gator showed me his teeth and then put the bite on me.

Mark Melcher, 69, of Mt. Jackson, is having the headstones in the 200-year-old Rinker cemetery on his farm restored.

A Peter Muhlenberg Middle School assistant principal will move to North Fork Middle School to become its principal in 2009-10. The Shenandoah County School Board selected Shelby Kline as North Fork's new leader Thursday night, replacing Dave Hinegardner, who has accepted a position in the central office.

The Valley's newest Rotary Club is getting some attention this week by hosting its first summer carnival.

Gale Netz's latest witch hunt went all too well. Using a centuries-old practice called water witching, Netz, Mt.

The accomplishments are there. The appearance is there. You just wait for the demeanor to present itself to prove that Jonathan Wilson is a force on the wrestling mat.

On 5/19/09 Sheriff's Deputies charged a 15 year old male juvenile from Strasburg, VA with two counts of grand larceny.

Four years ago, Raymond Bell took his faith, friendliness and fancy for the West and formed a church.

Religion Calendar Posted 2009-05-30 SATURDAY >>COWBOY CHURCH OF VIRGINIA services will be held at Riverview Farms, off Va.

Eighteen months after two Edinburg men got into a gun battle with each other, one of them has been indicted by a Shenandoah County Circuit Court grand jury on a charge stemming from the incident.

Knut Andreas Kronstad, 77, went to be with the Lord May 24, 2009, after a several week illness.

In the hours after the Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors closed down the Strasburg Volunteer Rescue Squad, some volunteers wondered aloud if their squads were next to be shuttered.

Con Burch, an organizer of the Volunteer Farms benefit concert and auction, sits inside the barn at Crooked Run Cellars in Mt.

The fight over a proposed military training facility came to a relatively quiet end last week, in what amounted to a victory for its opponents.

Unless you've been cut off from the rest of the world for the last seven months, it's no secret which industries are at the forefront of the economic crisis.

County government employees got a last minute budget reprieve on Thursday afternoon, just minutes before the board of supervisors approved its $100.4 million budget for 2010.

Religion Calendar Posted 2009-05-16 SATURDAY >>BROADWAY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 107 E. Lee St., Broadway, will host a men's prayer breakfast at 8:30 a.m. All men are welcome for food and fellowship.

A pair of pigs poke their noses through the fence at Baker Farms off Conicville Road near Mt.