Penn Laird News

The local county and municipal ballots for the Nov. 3 general election took shape with last week's filing deadline for candidates.

From left, Lucila Sandoval and Leticia Camacho Carrillo, who received Learner Merit Awards Sunday, chat with their teacher, Ronnie Saltsberg, who received a Small Group Tutor Merit Award, during the Skyline Literacy Annual Appreciation and Merit ceremony at Hillandale Park.

MCGAHEYSVILLE - K. Stuart and Sharon Z. Benson are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Emily Suzanne Benson, to George Edward Scott of Portsmouth, son of Gregory and Linda Scott, also of Portsmouth.

Drew Morrison and Terry Whetzel, with the landscaping company Natural Enhancement, spread polymer sand on the new brick pad next to the Cub Run Elementary School playground Tuesday.

The mother was amazed when her son scaled the indoor rock-climbing wall with practically no inhibition.

PENN LAIRD - Fort Defiance scored two runs in the seventh inning with two outs to rally over Spotswood 6-5 on Monday in nondistrict softball.

LOVINGSTON - Wilson Memorial's Hannah Myers had a hat trick Friday to lead the Green Hornets to a 4-0 victory over the Nelson County Governors in nondistrict girls' soccer.

PENN LAIRD - Robert E. Lee secured its second jayvee baseball win in as many days Tuesday as the Leemen dropped the Spotswood Trailblazers 6-4 in nondistrict play.

Rockingham County School Board will hold a public hearing on its proposed $111 million fiscal 2010 budget Tuesday night.

PENN LAIRD - Stuarts Draft picked up a 3-1 girls' soccer win over Spotswood on Monday in the Cougars' season opener.

PENN LAIRD - Spotswood rallied from a 2-1 deficit to top Stuarts Draft 6-3 on Monday in a jayvee girls' soccer match.

Garland M. Hutchison's love for horse shows, and the part he played in them, resonated well beyond his microphone.

It began as a desperation measure in the early 1980s by parents who could not get their children into public school kindergartens.

PENN LAIRD - Spotswood senior guard Michael Glover has given a verbal commitment to play basketball for Lynchburg College, a member of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference and the NCAA's Division III.

Christmas returned this Monday as the McGaheysville-Massanutten chapter of Lions International distributed hundreds of pounds of boxed food to dozens of families at the Massanutten Presbyterian Church on U.S. ...

If anyone suffered from "holiday anxiety" this Christmas season, let him, or her, compare their burden of activities with the to-do list of Nancy and Dave Shifflett of Elkton: First: mount 75 distinct outdoor, ...

Like most people, the middle school students had preconceived ideas that homeless shelters are stark, uninviting places.

Chris Grefe is getting a piece of the government bailout. Well, not really, but he is benefiting from the billions of dollars the Federal Reserve plans to pour into the struggling mortgage giants Fannie Mae and ...

The Spectrum Teen Handbell Ensemble from Massanutten Presbyterian Church in Penn Laird performs Saturday during "Holidays on Main Street." From left, Jane Haines, 12, Austin Reed, 15, Rachel Atkins, 15, and ...