Neighborhood Notes: Front Royal

Luray

Arts center

The following were finalists in the songwriting contest sponsored by the Regional Center for the Performing Arts of Luray during the Shenandoah Valley Acoustic Roots Festival on Oct. 3:

Michael Thomas Cash of Maurertown; Con Burch of Fort Valley; Barbara Martin of Staunton; Kipyn Martin of Shepherdstown, W.Va.,; and Bryan Elijah Smith of Dayton.

Front Royal

Library news

Samuels Public Library has acquired the following nonfiction for juveniles:

"Iowa," Blashfield; "South Dakota," Burgan; "Vermont," Heinrichs; "Washington, D.C.," Kent; "Idaho," Kent; "New Hamsphire," Kent; "Wyoming," Prentzas; "Tennessee," Somervill; "Montana," Stein; and "North Dakota," Stille.

More information about the library's holdings is available at www.samuelslibrary.net.