Verona News

VERONA - Andrew MacDanel began his tenure as part time music director for Laurel Hill Baptist Church on Nov.

Bowling air field in Verona was alive with spectators the afternoon of Nov. 9, 1930.

A multi-vehicle crash closed both the north and southbound lanes of Route 11, Tuesday morning, in Verona.

MOUNT SIDNEY - A three-vehicle accident slowed the Tuesday morning commute just north of Verona.

VERONA - The county Recycling Committee announced that Verona had the highest percentage of recycled materials for October at 9 percent of the total waste received at the site.

VERONA - Shirley Marie Shifflett, 74, wife of Earl C. Shifflett Jr., of 41 Kenwood Place, Verona, died at noon Saturday, Nov.

The lunch bell rings at Franklin Elementary School and students line up in the hallway, waiting to be served a slice of pizza, celery sticks, an apple, and milk or apple juice.

VERONA - The Augusta County Board of Zoning Appeals unanimously voted Nov. 5 to allow the Augusta Regional Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to create a new spay and neuter clinic on its property.

STAUNTON - Springhill 4-H Club conducted its first meeting of the new year Oct.

VERONA - John Randolph Lee Coffey, 57, husband of Wilma Chastain Coffey of 88 Augusta St., died Wednesday, Nov.

STAUNTON - Helen White, affectionately known as "Ladybug," formerly of 401 Greenwood Road, Staunton, went from the loving arms of her family to the safety of God's warm arms on Oct.

VERONA - Resident Charles Simmers describes himself as an old-school conservative.

The father of a man charged with voluntary manslaughter in the beating death of a Verona man said Monday he feels his work as a police drug informant in the 1980s might have triggered the deadly feud.

VERONA - The Augusta County Sheriff's Office arrested a Waynesboro man Friday on charges he molested a 14-year-old girl 25 years ago, Sheriff Randy Fisher said this morning.

The longtime girlfriend of a man jailed Thursday over a fatal fight said the victim's account of the brawl - written two days before a hemorrhage killed him - doesn't tell the full story.

When the fight broke out in the Dollar General parking lot, Chad Fields caught a fist to his face and a can of chili to his head, witnesses said.

Authorities this morning jailed a Verona man on a charge he killed an acquaintance in a fight earlier this month.

FORT DEFIANCE - Wind-driven rain early may have dampened the competitors, but not their spirits at the Elementary Cross Country Run for Fun hosted by the Blue Ridge Road Runners ON Saturday morning at Clymore Elementary School.

The band, Metallica is adding $50,000 to the reward fund, of a student that went missing at one of it's concerts.

A Stuarts Draft man will appear in court for a plea hearing today on charges stemming from his alleged attempt to hire a hitman to kill his ex-wife and her boyfriend.