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