New Market News

Susan and I will be out distributing magazines, handshakes, goodwill and smiles all over the area - First stop, the Brycefest in Basye, Virginia We're figuring on 12pm till about 2. Hope we see you there.

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.

NEW MARKET Virginia's Transportation Board approved the Virginia Department of Transportation 2010 fiscal budget last week, including a wide array of cuts across the Commonwealth.

NEW MARKET - Stuarts Draft defeated the New Market Shockers 11-4 on Tuesday night in a Rockingham County Baseball League contest.

A former New Market volunteer firefighter accused of setting more than a half dozen fires in the Shenandoah Valley waived his right to a preliminary hearing on eight charges he faces in Shenandoah County.

The case of a local firefighter, accused of arson is headed to a grand jury. Eight charges against Michael Bell were certified to the grand jury Friday .

An 1893 monument has received some much-needed modern-day attention of late. The Captain Jack Adams and Summers-Koontz Sons of Confederate Veterans camps have worked to raise funds and clean and restore the Summers-Koontz monument and the area around it on the New Market Battlefield.

A Sunday morning fire at the home of New Market Fire Department Assistant Chief James Bowman leveled a garage and destroyed a truck, officials said.

Larry Baker and company are back, even though they never went anywhere. In the three years since the Shenandoah County Habitat for Humanity last built, donations have taken a noticeable downturn, said Baker, the chapter president.

Sightings of dead and ill fish, mostly sunfish and smallmouth bass, picked up in mid-May. The timing seems to be consistent with previous years, when warming waters seemed to trigger increases.

STUARTS DRAFT - Stuarts Draft's Ryan Cooper and Drew Dobbins combined for a three-hit shutout Saturday night as the Diamondbacks blanked the New Market Shockers 5-0 in Rockingham County Baseball League play at the Diamond Club.

The military training facility Shenandoah Valley residents so adamantly opposed in April has found a likely home in West Virginia's Hardy County.

Broadway's budget for the next fiscal year is a behemoth compared to the spending plans being considered by other Rockingham County towns.

In March, Rebecca Kline headed to New Market with her 4-year-old son Aydan to run some errands.

On 5/18/09 Sheriff's Deputies arrested David Wayne Byers, 30 E. Jackson St, Front Royal, VA 22630, on a charge of soliciting without a permit.

Waynesboro Police are searching for a stolen vehicle. A worker at Papa John's Pizza on North Poplar Avenue went into the restaurant to finish some paperwork late Tuesday night.

The road to recovery for the New Market Volunteer Fire Department took a right turn Tuesday night.

The Town of New Market will reinstate funding for its fire department after a year full of controversy.

The U.S. Census Bureau is estimating that Hispanics and Asians make up nearly 12 percent of Virginia's population.

Seven VMI Cadets are marching almost 100 miles from Staunton to New Market, recreating the 85 mile journey made almost 150 years ago.