Shenandoah County News

This past Monday afternoon, at 4 p.m. at the Circuit Court in Woodstock, VA, Amy B. Tisinger of Edinburg, VA, was inducted as a judge of the General District Court of the 26th Judicial Circuit in the Shenandoah Valley.

The region's unemployment picture continues to dash any hopes of a quick economic recovery.

The Virginia Department of Historic Resources recently added a pair of Shenandoah County farms to the Virginia Landmarks Register.

On August 31st and September 1st, it'll be fun for the whole family, and a purse of $1,900 to boot! Local drivers can compete in two nights of fast-paced, noisy, exciting Nationwide Demolition Derbies at the Fair this year, and the winners have the option to go on to a higher level of earnings at the State Fair in October 2009.

A former New Market volunteer firefighter accused of setting more than a half dozen fires in the Shenandoah Valley waived his right to a preliminary hearing on eight charges he faces in Shenandoah County.

The case of a local firefighter, accused of arson is headed to a grand jury. Eight charges against Michael Bell were certified to the grand jury Friday .

The new neighbor on Swartz Lane has some fence mending to do if he wants to fit into the neighborhood.

EDINBURG Just five years ago, Erin Carver was sitting in a classroom at James Madison University.

EDINBURG At the May 26 board of supervisors meeting, Chairman David Ferguson sought the board's permission to set up a task force committee to evaluate the possibility of incinerators at the Shenandoah County Landfill.

A Sunday morning fire at the home of New Market Fire Department Assistant Chief James Bowman leveled a garage and destroyed a truck, officials said.

Aspiring Shenandoah County District 4 Supervisor candidate Carolyn Miller couldn't have come any closer to getting on this November's ballot.

The parents of a 17-year-old boy who plunged to his death from his Massanutten Military Academy dorm window in 2007 are suing the institution for $25.35 million.

WOODSTOCK -- The mother of a 16-year-old boy shot dead in January is suing his alleged murderer for $500,000. Pier Janeen Johannsen, of Strasburg, filed the lawsuit against Jody Lynn Bradley, 47, of 189 Wakemans Grove Road, Edinburg, last month in Shenandoah County Circuit Court.

The Shenandoah County Democratic Party has nominated Jim Fitzsimmons for District 4 supervisor.

A Shenandoah County Circuit Court grand jury indicted an Edinburg man late last month on charges that he maliciously wounded and attempted to rape a 16-year-old girl.

A Shenandoah County Circuit Court judge has decided that an Edinburg man convicted of growing hallucinogenic mushrooms at his residence will serve three years in prison.

With a site now determined for a proposed regional jail to serve Sheanandoah, Warren and Rappahanock counties, the board of supervisors must now fulfill its part of the deal.

Reductions some families have had to make because of the slumping economy might have international implications.

WOODSTOCK -- A co-defendant in a major methamphetamine manufacturing operation pleaded guilty to four charges Wednesday in Shenandoah County Circuit Court.

June 11, 2009 Feds say bitter bikers burned BBQ Federal agents suspect a turf war among motorcycle gangs was behind a fire that destroyed a restaurant in Strasburg, Va in 2003.