Today In History

November 23, 1961 — A big time was had by all last Saturday night at the Luray High School gym when the DE Club sponsored a “Sadie Hawkins” Dance. The gym was decorated appropriately with […]

November 22, 1962 — While heads of the houses prowled the ridges and valleys of the Massanutten Monday of this week in quest of deer, the wives of two luckless Page County huntsmen dispatched one […]

November 21, 1889 — The preliminary surveys so far seem to favor Beahm’s Gap as the point at which the Washington R.R. will cross the Blue Ridge, thence northward down the eastward slope of the […]

November 20, 1986 — VF Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lawrence R. Pugh announced the completion of the acquisition of Blue Bell Holding Company Inc., effective Monday. Blue Bell has manufacturing plants at Luray […]

November 19, 1987 — A Shenandoah man and woman were arrested Monday evening in connection with an October fire that destroyed Shenandoah Memorial Stadium, Sheriff E.M. Sedwick said Tuesday morning. Damage estimates were unavailable, but […]

November 18, 1965 — A 17-year-old juvenile made his escape from the Page County jail Monday night of this week and is still at large. Sheriff Clark Long said the youth was on the third floor […]