Today In History

• FEBRUARY 27, 1986 — Page County gasoline buyers have a welcome sign awaiting them at filling stations: signs proclaiming reduced prices. Prices tumbled — in some places to less than a dollar a gallon […]

• FEBRUARY 26, 1987 — A wintry storm piled nearly a foot of snow on Page County Sunday, forcing schools to close, creating hazardous road conditions and disrupting business and meeting schedules Monday. The heavy […]

• FEBRUARY 25, 1892 — Last week [in Shenandoah] Benton Jenkins, who works at Lee Kite’s, secured an old skiff that lodged on the dam at M.C. Kite’s mill, and attempted to cross the river […]

• FEBRUARY 24, 1887 — On last Monday night, our townsman, Mr. Jacob Elick, who always keeps one eye open to business even when asleep, was aroused by the loud squalls of his chickens. Getting […]

• FEBRUARY 23, 1911 — The Town Council has elected Mr. Richard Berry Mayor of Luray to succeed the late Mayor Smoot. The appointment holds till the 1st of September, but at the election to […]

• 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 […]