Stuarts Draft News

WAYNESBORO - If you love the sight of a passenger train on tracks where one is rarely seen, Waynesboro and Stuarts Draft will be the place to be on Sunday.

STUARTS DRAFT - The parking lot of Stuarts Draft Elementary isn't usually this quiet at 3 p.m. on a weekday.

An Iraq veteran arrived at the Stuarts Draft Fire and Rescue Station to vote this afternoon only to learn he wasn't registered.

STUARTS DRAFT - Stuart and Heather Allen announce the birth of a daughter, Piper Skye Allen, born Oct.

A Waynesboro public works backhoe driver caused an accident Wednesday morning, sending two people to the hospital.

VERONA - The grand jury directly indicted the former Augusta County information technology director Monday after county property was reportedly found inside his home, according to information provided by the sheriff's office.

Four firearms ringing in at over $1,000 in value were reported stolen from a Waynesboro home Friday.

All four area school districts lagged behind the state in on-time graduation rates, but black students in three districts outpaced the average in the rest of the commonwealth, according to statistics released Tuesday by Virginia Department of Education.

Buffie Sue Wells turned to her family long enough to notice their tears Thursday.

SHERANDO - Barbara Ann Clemmons Shirley, 75, of Sherando went home to be with the Lord on Monday, Oct.

A Stuarts Draft man will appear in court for a plea hearing today on charges stemming from his alleged attempt to hire a hitman to kill his ex-wife and her boyfriend.

A Stuarts Draft man pleaded guilty Monday to attempted capital murder charges. Fifty-seven-year-old Thomas Laguardia faces up to two life sentences.

STAUNTON - A Stuarts Draft man who earlier this year hired a sheriff's investigator posing as a hitman to kill his ex-wife and her fiance - only to give the hired hitman the wrong address and license plates of his targeted victims - pleaded guilty Monday in Augusta County Circuit Court to two counts of attempted capital murder for hire.

The Augusta County Board of Supervisors voted Wednesday to proceed with a fire and rescue station for the Riverheads area, and the hope is that the station will be up and running by the fall of 2010.

A group of about 30 racers from Virginia, Maryland, and even Pennsylvania came out to compete in Saturday's Soap Box Derby.

STAUNTON - Three charges of rape and one charge of forcible oral sodomy were certified to the Augusta County grand jury Tuesday against a Stuarts Draft man in a case involving a mentally disabled Roanoke woman.

STUARTS DRAFT - It is a rare chance for Courtney Ott, 11, to get to be an 11-year-old. On Sunday, she got to worry about whether or not rally points would be counted, if she was going to hit the cones on the sideline of the track and if the wheels on her soap box car were in the right place.

PENN LAIRD - Spotswood swept past Fort Defiance 25-15, 25-22, 25-18 on Thursday in nondistrict volleyball action.

BUENA VISTA - William Albert "Poppy" Vest Sr., 79, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, at his daughter's residence, surrounded by his children and grandchildren.

STUARTS DRAFT - The Blue Ridge Soap Box Derby Classic is supporting a local Fall Rally Weekend on Oct.