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June 30, 2009

Despite budget cuts and an unstable economy, the fuse is still burning on many of the region's Independence Day celebrations.

June 26, 2009

NEW MARKET -- An 1893 monument has received some much-needed modern-day attention of late.

June 22, 2009

NEW MARKET -- For all of the heat the Commonwealth Transportation Board has taken from local residents about closing one of the nearby Interstate 81 rest areas, it is making sure to win points with them downtown.

NEW MARKET -- A Sunday morning fire at the home of New Market Fire Department Assistant Chief James Bowman leveled a garage and destroyed a truck, officials said.

June 20, 2009

NEW MARKET -- The Shenandoah County Sheriff's Office is investigating a burglary at Cheap Storage, 3233 Old Valley Pike.

June 19, 2009

NEW MARKET -- The Commonwealth Transportation Board adopted the six-year improvement program for fiscal years 2010-15 and the Virginia Department of Transportation's fiscal 2010 budget Thursday.

June 18, 2009

WOODSTOCK -- A 65-year-old man was arrested on trespassing and drug charges Friday, according to the Shenandoah County Sheriff's Office.

June 10, 2009

NEW MARKET -- A Strasburg man faces a burglary charge and two counts of soliciting without a permit, according to the Shenandoah County Sheriff's Office.

June 2, 2009

NEW MARKET -- Verbally thrashed by Shenandoah County residents last month, Dave Dolan needed only a few weeks to find a place that would embrace his idea for a corporate training center.

May 27, 2009

WINCHESTER -- The Valley Conservation Council recognized several people and organizations with better models for development awards Thursday night at the George Washington Hotel.

May 26, 2009

In the hours after the Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors closed down the Strasburg Volunteer Rescue Squad, some volunteers wondered aloud if their squads were next to be shuttered.

May 22, 2009

NEW MARKET -- The road to recovery for the New Market Volunteer Fire Department took a right turn Tuesday night.

NEW MARKET -- The Shenandoah County Sheriff's Office is investigating the theft of a canoe from the 100 block of Idle Hours Lane.

May 21, 2009

NEW MARKET -- The Shenandoah Valley Battlefield Foundation will share more than $46,000 in federal grants with partner organizations.

May 16, 2009

NEW MARKET -- A war of words can only serve to help a battle that already has been fought and won.

May 15, 2009

NEW MARKET -- Keep Shenandoah Rural has done just that. The grassroots organization that formed to fight Dave Dolan's plan to buy 924 acres at Franwood Farms off of Smith Creek Road and start a corporate training center there claimed a victory this week when one of the farm's owners withdrew an application for a special-use permit. Steve Long, who owns the turkey farm with two of his older brothers, said he pulled the application because the family had grown impatient waiting on a contract from Dolan.

May 12, 2009

NEW MARKET -- After 145 years, the New Market Battlefield anniversary is getting opening act treatment.

NEW MARKET -- The New Market Area Library will extend its hours beginning in June, according to treasurer Peggy Harkness.

May 9, 2009

NEW MARKET -- Two recent thefts in the 300 block of Old Buffalo Lane appear to be related, according to the Shenandoah County Sheriff's Office.

NEW MARKET -- A Timberville man was charged with possession of marijuana during a traffic stop, according to the Shenandoah County Sheriff's Office.

May 2, 2009

NEW MARKET -- As some residents walked out during a meeting with the man proposing a corporate training center northeast of town Thursday night, they said words to themselves not befitting the courteous Shenandoah Valley.

April 29, 2009

NEW MARKET -- The former assistant treasurer of the New Market Volunteer Fire Department has been charged with 20 counts of forgery and obtaining money by false pretenses in Rockingham County.

NEW MARKET -- The State Water Control Board showered the town with good news Monday.

April 25, 2009

NEW MARKET -- If found guilty, two New Market Volunteer Fire Department firefighters charged with starting a number of blazes in the region will join a little-studied group -- firefighters who are firestarters.

NEW MARKET -- The Town Council's public safety committee chairman plans to ask his panel to recommend reinstatement of funding to the New Market Volunteer Fire Department.

WOODSTOCK -- Preliminary hearings for the two New Market Volunteer Fire Department volunteers charged with burning barns and abandoned houses locally have been set for 3 p.m. May 15.

April 24, 2009

NEW MARKET -- Dave Dolan's opponents have multiplied, and he's ready to hear them out.

April 23, 2009

NEW MARKET -- One of the young New Market Volunteer Fire Department firefighters charged with setting fires in the New Market area was seen leaving an abandoned house minutes before it went up in flames Friday, according to a search warrant affidavit filed in Shenandoah County Circuit Court.

April 21, 2009

NEW MARKET -- Two members of the New Market Volunteer Fire Department were behind a three-week arson spree in the New Market area, investigators said Monday.

NEW MARKET -- Town employees unsuccessfully tried to extinguish a fire that destroyed a backhoe Monday morning, Town Manager Chris Boies said.

April 20, 2009

NEW MARKET -- Any resident against having a military training facility built locally should cover their ears for what Robert Love has to say about the tactical training center in Halifax County.

April 18, 2009

Fire and law enforcement officials are investigating four suspicious blazes in southern Shenandoah County.

April 17, 2009

NEW MARKET -- Two New Market policemen ran into a burning apartment building without protective gear Thursday morning, one helping residents evacuate, the other working to knock down the flames.

April 16, 2009

NEW MARKET -- Residents concerned about a proposed military training center have formed a grass-roots organization to fight it.

April 15, 2009

WOODSTOCK -- Until a state police investigation into the New Market Volunteer Fire Department's finances is complete, the Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors will withhold $30,000 in funding for the organization.

April 13, 2009

NEW MARKET -- A Roanoke-area man is in negotiations with the landowners of Franwood Farms about purchasing 511 acres of mountain land to conduct various forms of local, state and federal training.

April 6, 2009

NEW MARKET -- A fire destroyed a Smith Creek Road house on Saturday. At 11:48 a.m., members of the New Market Volunteer Fire Company responded to the call at 19421 Smith Creek Road at the Rockingham County line, fire company Sgt. Mike Bell said.

April 2, 2009

NEW MARKET -- Two brothers have been arrested on drug charges by the Shenandoah County Sheriff's Office.

March 31, 2009

NEW MARKET -- Denman Zirkle has the real-life preservation success story that gives the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation good reason to think he can help the group grow out of its adolescence.

March 28, 2009

NEW MARKET -- The Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation is set to announce the hiring of its new executive director Monday.

TIMBERVILLE -- The Shenandoah County Sheriff's Office has charged a New Market woman with two counts of destruction of private property.

March 27, 2009

NEW MARKET -- District 1 Supervisor Dick Neese intends to run for a third term.

March 23, 2009

NEW MARKET -- Cindi Adams looks to other people's future as a potentially painful reminder of her own past.


March 21, 2009

NEW MARKET -- A Delaware man was killed and a passenger flown to the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville following a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 81 Friday afternoon.

March 17, 2009

NEW MARKET -- The Shenandoah Valley Battlefield Foundation is on track to name a new executive director this spring.

March 14, 2009

NEW MARKET -- Work on traffic signals at U.S. 11, U.S. 211 and Old Cross Road could cause traffic issues in town on Sunday.

March 12, 2009

NEW MARKET -- Going back into territory it has already trekked, the town is ready for a better result this time.

March 9, 2009

NEW MARKET -- A town lawyer with a penchant for poker was dealt a bad hand in federal court recently.

March 5, 2009

NEW MARKET -- The town now has a motto: "Where History and Hospitality Meet." Mayor Larry Smith came up with the idea of a contest seeking ideas from residents for a town slogan. In this month's town newsletter, Janet Ware's...

February 28, 2009

Initial drafts of 2009-10 budgets for New Market and Mt. Jackson are coming together and residents can expect the expected -- things are tight.

February 27, 2009

WOODSTOCK -- The Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors' public safety and code committee is recommending that the full board reinstate the county's contribution to the New Market Volunteer Fire Company.

WOODSTOCK -- A Shenandoah County Circuit Court grand jury indicted the former president of the New Market Volunteer Fire Co. Wednesday on an embezzlement charge.

February 20, 2009

NEW MARKET -- By a 4-3 vote, the Town Council approved an increase in water and sewer connection fees in the next two years, according to town documents. The in-town connection fees would increase July 1 to $4,500 for water...

February 19, 2009

NEW MARKET -- Thousands of dollars' worth of CDs, a stamp collection and other collectibles were stolen from a home in the 200 block of Huckleberry Lane last week.

NEW MARKET -- The Shenandoah County Sheriff's Office is investigating the theft of equipment from Adams Construction Co.

February 13, 2009

MT. JACKSON -- A New Market woman was arrested Saturday after she allegedly crashed a car and fled.

February 6, 2009

NEW MARKET -- One can never start daydreaming too early about laying out by the pool. To make those dreams come true in New Market, however, it will require more than just a change in the weather this year. Town staff must first make several immediate repairs to the community pool approved earlier this week by the public works committee.

February 5, 2009

NEW MARKET -- The New Market Planning Commission has approved Life Care Center's plan to add 3,050 square feet to the front of its building for physical therapy purposes.

February 2, 2009

WOODSTOCK -- A New Market woman has been indicted on charges that she fled from the scene of a hit-and-run traffic crash and hid in a local cornfield.




 







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