Until recently, the housing industry was very good to Jeff Carter. Carter, of Strasburg, worked for an excavation company that did contracting for major homebuilders. During the boom years, there was work to spare -- 60 hours a week, sometimes seven days a week. But when the region's housing market collapsed starting in 2007, Carter's job went with it.
Community Christian School's second annual summer enrichment academy, which had 64 participants -- less than half students at the school -- ended Thursday and featured classes ranging from pottery to river cleaning to working with digital media.
STEPHENS CITY -- Law-enforcement officers recovered the body of a 14-year-old Stephens City boy who drowned in the lake Thursday evening at Sherando Park.
FRONT ROYAL -- The Warren County magistrate's office should be staffed again by the end of this week or the first of next week, according to Sheriff Daniel T. McEathron.
John Lesinski, a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel, said Wednesday that Virginia should include basic "military awareness education" into the state's Standards of Learning.
WOODSTOCK -- Karen Hoffman and Brooklyn Chase Minor have both been affected by their birth order. Hoffman, now 57, ushered in Shenandoah Memorial Hospital's maternity wing when she became the first baby born there on Oct. 1, 1951. Brooklyn, born on Tuesday, has the honor of being the last baby delivered before the closure of the family birthing center.
FRONT ROYAL -- The Front Royal Golf Club will offer complimentary greens fees for Warren County residents on Monday as a way of letting the community know the facility is debt free, officials said Thursday.
On its face, H.R. 2454 is about fighting global warming. But there's a lot more in the American Clean Energy and Security Act than just "cap and trade" -- from a national building code to a ban on a common air conditioner component.
It might have passed in the House of Representatives, but neither Virginia's U.S. senators nor local officials are rushing to embrace the American Clean Energy and Security Act.