West Augusta News

Ray Kodger came back to his West Augusta home on Sunday to flashing sirens and a blocked off driveway.

Two men riding Harley Davidson motorcycles were killed Sunday afternoon after a head-on collision on Route 250 near Route 629 in West Augusta, not far from the Highland County-Augusta County line.

Two men are dead after a motorcycle crash in West Augusta earlier today. It happened on Shenandoah Mountain Drive about a half mile west of Route 629 Deerfield.

Hannah Stephenson, 3, of Vanna, Ga., is on her second week of vacation with her family, and is visiting her aunt in West Augusta.

A man was stabbed in the chest early Friday in the West Side's Humboldt Park neighborhood.

STAUNTON - Ampersand Arts is requesting that everybody who took a miniature canvas for the Collins Cooperative Mosaic project return it by noon June 20.

Bond was set at $300,000 each Sunday for a man and teenager charged in a Friday night drive-by shooting that left two teenage boys wounded in the Northwest Sidea s Belmont-Craigin neighborhood.

STAUNTON - In the shadow of the Confederate monument in Thornrose Cemetery, more than 80 residents gathered Sunday to honor the memory of those who served.

WEST AUGUSTA - Tons of boulders remain across Va. 629 a week after a rockslide closed the road, and the Virginia Department of Transportation said it will be at least a month and possibly even longer before the road is cleared for travel.

Travel to Deerfield is slow these days. The village's main path, Deerfield Valley Road, is blocked by a rock slide.

STAUNTON - The crew of the PBS series "Road Trip to History" will film at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library on Sunday for a documentary about Virginia's historic gardens.

WEST AUGUSTA - VDOT has closed Deerfield Valley Road between U.S. 250 and West Augusta Road because of a rockslide.

WEST AUGUSTA - A Harrisonburg man airlifted to U.Va. after crashing into a deer Tuesday night is awake, but still hospitalized.

You want to be a re-enactor, spend a weekend with Fifth Virginia, Company L, out of West Augusta, where the guys take it to the extreme by living and eating like Civil War soldiers for two days.

Gospel group to perform: The Coachmen will perform at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Wilson Memorial High School.

FISHERSVILLE - A Fishersville meat company continues to suffer from a reported rash of employee thefts as a second worker in a two-week period has been arrested, the Augusta County Sheriff's Office reported.

The Churchville lawyer leading the petition drive against Augusta County's reassessessment owes more than $2,800 in real estate and personal property taxes.

STAUNTON - Eleanor Eastwood Sanger VanGilder, 77, beloved wife, mother of two children and stepmother of four, went to be with her Lord at 3:15 a.m. Friday, Feb.

Next to the antique rifles resting against the large tree, a group of women sold home-baked goods Sunday, while men, dressed in 19th-century militia uniforms, performed drills on the lawn of the Augusta County ...

Sounds of the Civil War echo through Augusta County on Sunday. West Augusta Guard member, Waverly Adcock, says, "We really had a great turnout and we are really happy with how things have turned out." Folks ...