Today In History

June 25, 1987 — The Shenandoah Homemaker Club honored Virginia Melton as “Shenandoah’s Woman of the Year” during the group’s 12th annual summer banquet Saturday evening. Mrs. Melton, a retired Page County school teacher, was […]

June 24, 1887 — One of the heaviest storms ever known in this latitude visited this place last Tuesday evening about 3 o’clock, lasting about 1-1/2 hours. The clouds began to gather in the northwest […]

June 23, 1989 — Weekend rains managed to put a damper on the second Blue Ridge Mountain Rendezvous, held at the Country Waye Campground near Kimball last weekend. Joseph Harty, coordinator for the event, said […]

June 22, 1961 — A number of Page County citizens have looked out in their yards in the last few days … taken a second look and headed for either a shotgun or the telephone […]

June 21, 1962 — People on the highways thought it was part of a missile or an airplane but it was just part of the big 100,000 gallon tank the Town of Luray recently purchased […]

June 20, 1991 — After almost 20 years of waiting, Page County residents will finally have their own vocational training center. School board chairman Dick Fox announced plans Monday to purchase the vacant Autometrics plant, just […]