Today In History

September 20, 1987 — The Woman’s Club of Luray will celebrate its 50th anniversary this weekend with special activities at the Luray United Methodist Church. The program will include a memorial service, scrapbook display, minute […]

September 19, 1911 — About 500 people turned out to witness the game of baseball on Wednesday between Elkton and the Shenandoah YMCA teams. Again Shenandoah proved themselves too strong for Elkton, for out of […]

September 18, 1961 — An attempted robbery of the Luray ABC store on Thursday night of last week yielded nothing but some cuts and bruises and a few days in the Page County Jail. The […]

September 17, 1990 — What do you get when you combine the clank of roller skates, giggles, a juke box and pizza? A night at Skate City is the only possible answer. The Luray roller […]

September 16, 1962 — According to a release from Shenandoah, a “considerate” thief, who took a new 1962 Chevrolet belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Comer last Thursday, telephoned Mr. Comer Tuesday morning to tell […]

September 15, 1986 — ABC Agent D.W. Presgraves, State Trooper D.L. Weaver, ABC Special Agent Roger Judd and State Game Warden Parke Slater seized a 60-gallon copper still at a chicken house in Kite Hollow […]