Today In History

May 3, 1962 — During the severe electrical storm Tuesday evening of this week, the large bank barn on the Mahlon Brubaker farm in the Massanutten section west of Luray was struck by lightning and […]

May 2, 1889 — A difficulty occurred on the Massanutton Mountain at Spracker’s Spring, about 200 yards beyond the Page line last Monday, between two men, one named Kite and the other Higgs, both of […]

May 1, 1986 — A Route 3, Luray women escaped injury Monday evening when a bullet from a high-powered rifle passed through the roof of her house, bounced off the floor and grazed her head. […]

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 — The barn on the farm of the late Capt. Jos. Keyser was destroyed by fire about 1 o’clock last Tuesday night, together with a large lot of hay, 50 barrels of […]