Today In History

• FEBRUARY 18, 1892 — The most gorgeous display ever seen in this section was that which lighted up the northern sky last Saturday night between half past 6 and 10 o’clock. It was the aurora […]

• FEBRUARY 17, 1887 — The payroll it is estimated, for the Shenandoah Iron Co., at Milnes, for the month of March will amount to $36,000. The furnace is doing better than ever before known, […]

• FEBRUARY 8, 1990 — Luray High School clinched its fifth-straight Skyline District volleyball championship and earned a berth in the Region B tournament with a pair of victories last week. The victories also give […]

• FEBRUARY 7, 1987 — Luray’s varsity volleyball team applied the finishing touch on its second straight Skyline District championship season Monday night by overcoming a first- game loss for a 12-15, 15-11, 15-10 victory over […]

• FEBRUARY 6, 1986 — Taxi service is about to be restored to Page County after a hiatus of some three months. Last Nov. 14, Clarence Sirbaugh of Stanley closed his venerable Sirbaugh’s Taxi, after […]

• FEBRUARY 5, 1987 — Members of the Luray Fire Department and other volunteers worked to free a female Hereford which fell into any icy pond off Cave Hill Road Monday morning. Ralph Davis, the […]