Yorktown News

Wednesday November 4th, 2009 Crestline Hotels & Resorts Appoints R. Blaine Dorsey as General Manager of the Hilton Garden Inn Virginia Beach Town Center Crestline Hotels & Resorts, Inc.

York County School Division officials are asking that people planning to attend the Monday Peninsula Health District H1N1 flu immunization clinic at Grafton High School not arrive before 3 p.m. because of school-dismissal traffic.

"This is It," above. For more movies, see page 2. The Fall Book Sale at York County Public Library is at 3 p.m. today, 10 a.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday at 8500 George Washington Memorial Highway, Yorktown.

Where: Gently Used, York Village Shopping Center, 7330 George Washington Memorial Highway, Yorktown Fab find: Set of brown woven boxes, $5 The sign on the storefront says "thrift," but you might question that label when you walk in the door of Gently Used, Yorktown's newest thrift store.

Conditions of chance have aligned to create a spookily perfect Halloween night this year.

The York County Public Library is once again offering its Food for Fines amnesty program.

National Geographic Traveler magazine has included the Historic Triangle, Chesapeake Bay and Shenandoah Valley in its list of the world's iconic destinations.

The next generation of NASA is on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center and it's looking slimmer than ever.

York-Poquoson Sheriff's investigators say they have arrested a man in connection with the June 11 robbery of Winfrees Firearms.

A York man has been arrested in connection with the June burglary of a county gun store and at least two firearms -- including an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle -- stolen from the shop have been taken off the streets in two Peninsula cities.

Free deck tours aboard the Pride of Baltimore II are being offered today while the tall sailing ship is docked at Riverwalk Landing.

Just to let you people know, Monday was Yorktown Day. It's a big day in history.

County offices, public libraries, York- Poquoson Social Services and the Virginia Cooperative Extension will be closed, as well as the county's Waste Management Center offices.

Was it a felony or just an honest mistake? A father faces child neglect charges after his two children were found outside while he took a nap.

A student at Lindsay Middle School in Hampton broke the rules last week in an attempt to save the life of a fellow student.

If "Capt. Mickey" has his way, visitors next summer to Yorktown's waterfront could take in the historic sights from a new angle - dangling beneath a parasail canopy high above the York River.

Purell doesn't make enough hand sanitizer to make you feel clean after you learn about some of your neighbors.

Longer hours and a waterfront fall festival await visitors at this weekend's Market Days at Riverwalk Landing in Yorktown.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Anne M. Epperly and Senior Airman Grace Huntoon do not fly jets into battle or go on bombing missions.

County supervisors began Tuesday to flesh out the future of Yorktown's Fourth of July festivities following a celebration this year that was reduced considerably.