A rabid cat bit two residents of the Mountain Falls Park Subdivision in Winchester. Colin Greene, director of the Lord Fairfax Health District, said that a white-and-black stray cat bit the residents in two separate attacks. “The cat bit them and scratched them and actually kind of hung ...
WINCHESTER — The area is on track for the highest number of yearly opioid deaths since official record keeping began, the executive director of the Northern Shenandoah Valley Substance Abuse Coalition said Monday. Lauren Cummings told a conference organized by the coalition that there have ...
WINCHESTER — Look at the Jackie Robinson Foundation to see how corporations and nonprofits can work together. That was the message Della Britton, president and CEO of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, delivered in a speech at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley Business Forum Luncheon on ...
Shenandoah University was recently awarded a grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to help bolster its physician assistant program. Over the course of five years, physician assistant program director Tony Miller said the university will receive $950,205. That money ...
WINCHESTER — The Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation has announced plans to alter the Winchester courthouse Civil War museum and has changed the name of the museum to the Shenandoah Valley Civil War Museum. In a news conference Friday, Keven Walker, CEO of the foundation, said the ...
A Stephens City man died Tuesday near Winchester when his Dodge pick-up truck dropped 28 feet, nose-first, onto Interstate 81. Lt. Warren Gosnell, of the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office, said that Charles Perkins Jr. was driving northbound on Interstate 81 and took exit 315, which goes to ...
WINCHESTER — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Division held a change of command ceremony Friday. Maj. Gen. Robert D. Carlson is leaving the Transatlantic Division to go to work at the Pentagon for the secretary of the Army’s Manpower Reserve Affairs. Brig. Gen. David C. ...
For fans of the indie genre film scene, the Alamo Drafthouse will be the place to be the weekend of Sept. 7-10. The GenreBlast Film Festival will feature 11 feature films and over 80 short films from the genres of horror, action/adventure, sci-fi, fantasy, martial arts, documentaries, ...
For some, the images produced when thinking of a place called the Cedar Crest Country Club are ones that involve Sunday brunches, membership fees and exclusivity. But for a select few, the Cedar Crest Country Club was where skating and punk rock in the 80s started. Washington D.C. filmmaker ...
WINCHESTER — Republican candidates for governor, attorney general and lieutenant governor held a public discussion Tuesday about the opioid epidemic, casting opioid abuse as a disease that needs to be treated, rather than fought with criminal prosecution. “These (people who are addicted ...
A Shenandoah University professor of environmental studies and biology and two of his former students will be presenting more than 300 plant specimens to George Mason University on Friday, culminating a three-year study of the Abrams Creek Wetlands in Winchester. Woodward Bousquet has been ...
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Wednesday that New Market and Opequon battlefields have received almost $1.7 million in grant money. A news release from the Department of tbe Interior said the money was given to "23 battlefields threatened with damage or destruction by urban and ...
The Northern Shenandoah Valley Substance Abuse Coalition has received a $15,000 donation from the Winchester Rotary Club Charitable Foundation to help provide housing money for participants in the area drug court. Lauren Cummings, executive director of the substance abuse coalition, said that ...
The Winchester Medical Center and three local emergency medical service agencies have received awards from the American Heart Association. The medical center received a silver-level award the American Heart Association presents to hospitals that treat a significant number of heart attack ...
WINCHESTER – Many localities in the region would lose federal funding they use to boost their economies under budget cuts proposed by President Donald Trump, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine said Friday. Kaine, the Democratic vice presidential candidate in the 2016 election, visited downtown ...
Adam Watson and his wife were at a shop in February 2016 getting matching anniversary tattoos, something they do every year, when he started feeling nauseous. “I went to the restroom at the tattoo shop to splatter my face with water,” Watson said. “I felt really dizzy and fell over. ...
WINCHESTER -- Local members of the Virginia House of Delegates advertised their interest Thursday in finding answers to a regional labor shortage. The delegates -- Chris Collins, Randy Minchew and David LaRock -- all supported plans that would encourage people to receive a technical ...
WINCHESTER – A soon-to-be Shenandoah University graduate will join more than 1,000 other students as they begin the next chapter of their lives after graduation. Taylor Bloom, 22, an undergraduate and acting major from Middletown, will be among those receiving degrees during commencement ...
WINCHESTER - The closest Apple store to Winchester is in Reston or Fairfax, but a new store at 86 Featherbed Lane is (sort of) changing that. On Dec. 5, Shane Cannon, an engineer and first-time business owner, opened a branch of Experimac, a franchise that sells and repairs used Apple ...
Actor Jim Belushi said he had never been to Winchester before serving as this year’s grand marshal of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival Grand Feature Parade. But he had heard all about it from a friend, Donna Dixon. “[Dixon] was like … you have to go to Winchester ... the most ...