Port Republic News

Farmers in the Valley say the Environmental Protection Agency and states have worked as a "team" to voluntarily protect the environment in the past, but they fear that's changing.

Police have charged a Port Republic woman with reckless driving three months after she struck a local physician with her car, resulting in his death.

A Charlottesville Police officer has been charged with a oefailure to yielda in an accident that occurred while responding to yesterdaya s Wachovia Bank robbery .

PORT REPUBLIC Three Republican incumbents are running unopposed in the Nov. 3 election for three local government seats.

Funding to preserve 178 acres of the Civil War battlefield at Port Republic is nearly in hand, according to a letter from the national Civil War Preservation Trust.

With help from his dad last week, James Madison University freshman Nic Mirenda settled into his Dingledine Hall dorm room and prepared for what was supposed to a fun year ahead on the Harrisonburg campus.

The local county and municipal ballots for the Nov. 3 general election took shape with last week's filing deadline for candidates.