Woodstock News

WOODSTOCK As she raised her hand and recited the oath, Amy Tisinger was being sworn in - not only as a district judge, but the first female to hold the position in Shenandoah County.

Following Mayor Bill Moyers' tie-breaking vote to adopt the original proposed budget a crowd of more than 60 rose and applauded.

Shenandoah County Fair sponsors are giving away concert tickets again this year! Coca Cola is joined by DuPont Community Credit Union in the annual drawing that allows lucky winners to receive two free tickets to the concerts along with two free gate passes.

This past Monday afternoon, at 4 p.m. at the Circuit Court in Woodstock, VA, Amy B. Tisinger of Edinburg, VA, was inducted as a judge of the General District Court of the 26th Judicial Circuit in the Shenandoah Valley.

Students in Virginia should have some basic information about the U.S. military included in their civics studies, according to a local legislative candidate.

In separate lawsuits against town doctors filed in April in Shenandoah County Circuit Court, two women are seeking a combined $4.7 million in damages.

A handful of neighbors concerned and angry about a new neighbor building a fence down the middle of a road they say is their right of way has hired a lawyer in an effort to get it taken down.

A town man will serve two years in prison for crimes related to breaking into St.

Woodstock - The Board of Supervisors in Warren and Rappahannock counties have already approved moving forward on the construction of a new regional jail in Front Royal near the Virginia Inland Port.

Local band "The Instigators" consisting of Amber, Greg and Bradley Patton, Bobby Grubbs, Matt Dinardo and Hank Zimmerman entertained a crowd of 500 at the Woodstock Enhancement Committee's street dance on Friday, June 12.

Lord Fairfax Community College will begin offering evening classes at Central High School this fall, officials said late last week.

The parents of a 17-year-old boy who plunged to his death from his Massanutten Military Academy dorm window in 2007 are suing the institution for $25.35 million.

Citing education as the key to long-term economic prosperity in the rural 15th District, Del.

It took a long drive over a holiday weekend - a setting that should have played to all of radio's traditional strengths - to show how much trouble commercial FM stations may have in store.

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.

The owner of Multistone International Inc., which was burned out of its Strasburg home last year, has been released from the Shenandoah County Jail after receiving a positive review from a Western State Hospital psychologist.

Hard times call for communities to gather together and help one another. That is exactly what Bob Blair and the Volunteer Farm has done for the past six years.

Police are still searching for a man who robbed StellarOne Bank in Woodstock on the afternoon of Friday, May 29.

John Lesinski, who's seeking to unseat Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Woodstock, says he has a way to extend unemployment benefits in Virginia that would end a partisan battle over the state's rejection of $125 million in federal aid.

Though it's been nearly a year since the Town Council's first public hearing on an ordinance that would relocate balloting in town elections to Central High School, some residents' concerns about the move haven't changed.