Ruckersville News

One year ago, Ruckersville was reeling in the aftermath of a storm that hurled hailstones the size of golf balls to earth, bringing at least one small business, Blue Ridge Trailers, to a disastrous standstill.

A Crimora man awaits a Dec. 7 sentencing after pleading guilty to robbing Greenberry's Coffee & Tea Company in the Barracks Road Shopping Center at knifepoint in June 2008.

In June 2005, I wrote: Tuesday dozens of people showed up for the groundbreaking of Greene County's first active adult community.

The county's Farmers Market opened its season in the parking lot of Greene's Technical Education Center Saturday.

The Mid-Atlantic Power Festival dropped neatly into the calendar between Memorial Day and Independence Day, giving Greene County residents and visitors an all-American opportunity to celebrate the beginning of summer.

The Town of Stanardsville's Fourth of July parade keeps getting bigger and better.

A new tourist center will open on Route 29 South in Ruckersville within weeks. The Greene County Visitors' Center, now located on Spotswood Trail in Stanardsville, will relocate to the bright yellow building next to the Blue Ridge Cafe by mid-July, confirms Margaret Ramsey, speaking for the county's tourism council.

A Virginia state trooper is recovering at home following a crash Sunday in Page County.

The governor headed straight back to Richmond after Tuesday morning in Charlottesville for a series of bill signings.

Last month, a development group based in Northern Virginia paid $5 million to take Four Seasons, the upscale 204-acre active adult community in Ruckersville, off the hands of New York's Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company .

The former treasurer of the Greene County Youth Center pleaded guilty in Greene's Circuit Court to two counts of felony embezzlement on Monday, June 15, and not guilty to three counts of welfare fraud the following day.

Governor Tim Kaine signed a bill Tuesday afternoon that will bring a very visible honor to two fallen soldiers from Central Virginia.

Dana Hodges has seen the student body at William Monroe High School grow from about 400 to about 850 in the last 34 years.

A cake, baked at home by Sister Pullen of Craigsville, sold for $210. Wayne Powell of Stanardsville paid $2,500 for the 1986 Ford F150 Explorer pickup Dale Conley of Geer donated.

The sun was shining down on the crowd that came to partake of the 19th Annual Strawberry Festival at Stanardsville's Court House Square Saturday.

A Crimora man linked to a series of robberies from Ruckersville to Rockingham admitted his guilt to an attempted robbery near Waynesboro that started the spree.

Summer's near and school is ending. High school students are off to college. College students are looking for jobs.

A representative of Charlottesville's KG Associates - formerly the Kessler Group - is requesting a rezoning of more than 16 acres stretching southward down Route 29 from its intersection with Route 607.

Route 29 southbound remains closed approximately one mile north of Ruckersville, near Route 633 in Greene County due to a crash involving a truck.

Bishop Michael Jackson of the Emmanuel Christian Center in Ruckersville believes there are gangs in Greene County.