Today In History

May 2, 1889 — French Twyman, who has been in the county jail for some weeks, tiring of this retirement from his ordinary pleasures and pursuits, made a strike for liberty last Friday night. About […]

May 1, 1890 — The streets of Luray could not well be dustier than they were last week before the rain. Yet this is the way they will be all the summer, except of course […]

April 30, 1987 — When Sandra Collier calls auctions, it’s anything but tongue- in-cheek business. “A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk,” sing-singed Mrs. […]

April 29, 1965 — Six-year-old Rhonda Couch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Couch, was chosen “Little Miss Shenandoah” Friday evening at the Shenandoah Elementary School over 45 first and second-graders. Rhonda is a first-grader […]

April 28, 1887 — Many of our subscribers complain of the trouble they experience with people who borrow their paper. They tell us that some of them call as regular as the day of publication […]

April 27, 1961 — The death of Leo “Sidy” Dovel, 52, on Monday of this week, recalls the pitching deeds of one of the most popular and most effective pitchers in Luray’s long history of […]