Today In History

April 14, 1887 — We have for the last year been urging our farmers and others whom we thought might be profited by the business, to look into the feasibility and cost of the establishment […]

April 13, 1961 — Larry Dovel, former Luray High School baseball pitcher, who is now in the organization of the Cincinnati Redlegs, hurled four innings for Indianapolis of the American Association against the Cincinnati “B” […]

April 12, 1962 — The Luray Ruritans presented their jolly, happy-go-lucky “Womanless Wedding” and “Male Beauty Contest”at Page County High School last Friday evening. As in past performances, the audience was kept in animated suspense. […]

April 11, 1889 — Notwithstanding the beautiful weather of the previous week and the general belief that winter had given place to spring, last Saturday witnessed one of the severest snowstorms ever seen in this […]

April 10, 1986 — The Luray A&P Food Store is among 26 stores in the supermarket chain reportedly marked for closing, according to a report in the Harrisonburg Daily News-Record Wednesday. A story by the […]

April 9, 1987 — Luray’s town council, in a special executive session Tuesday night, voted unanimously to hire a new chief of police. Robert M. Holloway, 48, will assume his duties on the town’s police […]