Stanley News

Several localities are holding celebrations for the Fourth of July this weekend.

With a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, Wally Turner worked diligently, tapping down the dirt in the hot sun.

The town council voted unanimously to adopt the $1.6 million fiscal 2010 budget Wednesday night, including significant tax increases for both real estate and personal property.

A suspicious late morning fire Friday destroyed an empty home near Stanley, according to the Stanley Fire Department.

Sitting beside the cash register it lays, with a pen and already half full with signatures.

If Page County had its own Mount Rushmore, Ralph Dean's face probably would be on it.

The streets of Luray are buzzing as traffic moves up and down Main Street and pedestrians get ready for their morning stroll down the greenway.

The National Weather Service has confirmed that a F1 tornado is responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage during last week's thunderstorm; a storm that left one family without a home.

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

With smoke detectors are going off among the pieces of wood, people on pond Avenue in Stanley work to recover from Wednesday night's strong storms, including taking pictures of the damage.

Wednesday's powerful storms knocked out electricity to hundreds of residents around the Valley.

Each school day the students are transported to the Page County School System. Among those driving them could be the next Chairman of the Page County Board of Supervisors.

Stephanie Burkek has put a light gray plastic chair in front of the door to her room, number 112, and made herself comfortable in it.

Police officers from all over the county gathered in town this morning to honor those who have fallen in the line of duty.

ROANOKE, April 23 Just 20 minutes in the courtroom and Judge Glen Conrad handed down the sentence for the fourth man indicted after a raid on Little Boxwood in November 2007.

Among the 32 who spoke Tuesday night at the public hearing on the Page County School Board budget, there were a few voices with personal investment in the school system.

Religion Calendar Posted 2009-04-18 SATURDAY >>BRIDGEWATER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 219 N. Main St., will host a blood drive from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. in the church fellowship hall.

The driver of a dump truck that overturned on U.S. 340 on Thursday near Stanley was charged with reckless driving, according to Virginia State Police.

A Bedford City Police officer who was struck by pickup truck in 2006 while in the line of duty was hit again Friday, this time by a van.

Supervisors J.D. Cave and Tom LaFrance review potential cuts in the 2009-10 budget during a work session last week.