Ashland News

Ashland will 'kick off' the 2009 holiday season with its 40th Old Time Holiday Parade this Sunday, Nov.

The Ashland Town Council Tuesday night approved a lease agreement with the Ashland Community Theater Foundation.

The Ashland Police Department would like to notify motorists of the following road closures in conjunction with Sunday's Holiday Parade, which starts at 2:30 p.m.: Route 54 between Medical Drive and Taylor Street; Henry Street between Route 54 and Archie Cannon Drive Archie Cannon Drive between U.S. 1 and North James Street All parked vehicles must ...

Randy and Kristin Mudd and Lacey Hampton were eager to present the checks to the parents of two Hanover County girls who are been undergoing treatment for brain tumors.

Ten houses in Petersburg and one in Ettrick owned by convicted slumlord Oliver C. Lawrence are being foreclosed on and are scheduled to be auctioned off next week.

Convicted slumlord Oliver C. Lawrence will get to experience life in the Richmond City Jail and one of his own neglected rental properties.

In this April 28, 2006 file photo, convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad gestures as he address judge James L. Ryan during a media preview before the start of his trial in Rockville, Md.

Hanover Safe Place, which deals with cases of domestic abuse on a day-to-day basis, is an agency that would like to be put out of business.

When James D. Martin was shot dead on an early October evening seven years ago in the parking lot of a grocery store in Wheaton, a northern Washington suburb, it got little attention on the nightly news.Early the next morning, a landscaper was fatally shot in nearby Rockville, also by a .223-caliber bullet.

The wheels are once again in motion for two proposed mixed-use developments on Ashland's eastern boundaries.

While Virginia "Gigi" Foster admits she is "thrilled and flattered" to be named the 2009 Christmas Mother, she quickly acknowledges "there's going to be a so much greater need this year." The official announcement of her selection came last Wednesday during a tea at Pebble Hill, the Doswell home of Franklin Flippo Jr.

The election is finally over, and Republicans should be pleased with the results.

The Board of Supervisors approved a Conditional Use Permit to allow construction of the new Black Creek fire station.

Jared Hayslett, 29, works at the Ashland Coffee and Tea as a manger. Last year, Hayslett went on a mission trip sponsored by a Christian Organization to Cambodia.

On a beautiful fall-like Sunday evening with the cool wind lightly blowing, a mule attached to a horse drown carriage rides through Ashland as on-lookers stopped and watched the two young lovers, Zack Attkisson and girlfriend Emma Nero.

The mother of a soldier serving in Afghanistan wants to adopt 50 soldiers for Christmas.

The Town of Ashland's Comprehensive Plan update remains underway. Town Planning Director Nora Amos and Planning Commission Chairman Bob Brown delivered a presentation to the Town Council Oct.

If you drove down New Kent Road in South Richmond Saturday, you would have spotted loads of people going door-to-door for candy- but no traffic.

There will be no tricks, treats or Halloween parties this year for many of Virginia's convicted sex criminals.

If you ever drove along U.S. 1 in Ashland and you saw an old silver truck pulling out of the Ashland Town Square apartments loaded with all kinds of odds and ends, then it must have been 76-year-old Eunice Mahoney.