Today In History

February 23, 1989 — The Stanley Town Council heard from a local non-profit organization last Wednesday about the possibility of a community center for the town. A dozen members of the Stanley Jaycees presented the […]

February 22, 1990 — Video stores and other short-term rental businesses feel “singled out” by a tax proposed last week by the Page County Board of Supervisors. Their reaction came after the supervisors authorized County […]

February 21, 1991 — Columbia Gas Trans- mission Corporation is planning construction of a $10.1 million compressor station in southern Page County. According to Kelly Merritt, a communications representative for Columbia Gas, the facility will […]

February 20, 1964 — The eighth snow of the winter began falling here about noon Tuesday and had reached a depth variously reported at 14 inches before it ceased early Wednesday morning. The wind-driven snow […]

February 19, 1891 — Some wretch threw a piece of manganese ore, weighing two or three pounds, through a window in the office of the Stanley Furnace and Land Co., at Stanley, on last Friday […]

February 18, 1966 — Construction work on the proposed shopping center on East Main Street at the Confederate monument will begin as soon as weather conditions permit, it was stated this week by Lowell Baughan, […]