Today In History

March 30, 1990 — Junior Stevie Turner pitched five innings of no-hit baseball, striking out six and walking just two, as Page County dropped Luray 9-1 in a rain-shortened game at Luray Friday. The victory […]

March 29, 1990 — The Luray Volunteer Fire Department is kicking off a $500,000 fund campaign for its new headquarters building on East Main Street. The proposed new structure will provide expanded administrative quarters, three […]

March 28, 1962 — A landslide at the big cut halfway up the east side of the Massanutten on U.S. 211 blocked traffic for several hours on Monday morning of this week but was handily […]

March 27, 1991 — The Page County Landfill Committee is at a standstill until they receive further instruction from the board of supervisors. Leonard Joyce and Jim Reynolds of Joyce Engineering told the committee Tuesday […]

March 26, 1986 — Bill Stephenson is howling mad at his new neighbors. The newcomers are coyotes and Stephenson, a retiree who tends sheep on his Rileyville farm, fears the intruders may attack his herd […]

March 25, 1890 — Mr. D. Bradford is now in Baltimore buying material for a new paper soon to be started in this place, to be known, we believe, as the Industrial Union, and to […]