Today In History

June 16, 1887 — We have a beautiful town, but it would be prettier if the cows were not allowed to range at will over the streets, depredating upon private gardens, shade trees, and everything […]

June 15, 1962 — It was a big day for the Shenandoah National Park and the Virginia Sky Line Company last Saturday when the new interchange at the junction of U.S. 211 and the Panorama […]

June 14, 1962 — Ten-year-old Karen Dovel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I.R. Dovel Jr., of Luray, is credited with saving her brother, Michael, age 8, from severe burns. It seems that the two were […]

June 13, 1889 — The delay in opening the new road down the Hawksbill from the forks of the road at the south edge of Mr. Hudson’s farm to Buracker’s corner is one of the […]

June 12, 1992 — Kathy Shifflett Arrington, a sixth and seventh grade teacher at Grove Hill Elementary School, has been named the Page News and Courier’s 1992 “Teacher of the Year.” The award, including a […]

June 11, 1891 — Mrs. Robert L. Hisey of Big Spring was so unfortunate a few days ago while eating chicken soup as to swallow a small bone, which lodged in her throat, from which […]