Shenandoah News

Big Meadows Lodge is one of three lodging options you have while touring the Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park.

If you like bluegrass music, I have a couple of recommendations for you. The first is Marty Raybon & Full Circle 's This That and the Other .

Greenfield's downtown community park has put together a terrific party for their tenth anniversary.

Think Hamler and you think polka, thanks to the village's annual German Heritage Fest each July.

The president is making volunteer service a priority with a campaign called "United We Serve." The summer of volunteer work started Monday at Shenandoah National Park with a special guest.

Two Shenandoah teens will spend at least six months in jail for the beating death of a 25-year-old Mexican immigrant, a sentence described as too harsh by defense lawyers and too lenient by a coalition of civil rights groups that portrayed the attack as a hate crime.

Camp Dragonfly accepting applications: Applications are being received for campers for 2009 Camp Dragonfly, a weekend camp for grieving children and teens aged 6-18. The camp is planned for Sept.

Shenandoah is the first Montgomery County city to earn a Tree City USA designation from the Arbor Day Foundation.

Racing day in Harrisonburg last week was definitely ladies' day for the top placers from eastern Rockingham and southern Page counties.

TOPICS: Chit/Chat KEYWORDS: Join the Tea Party Express to DC! We are caravaning from Sacramento to DC from Aug 27 to Sept 12, hosting local Tea Parties in cities all along the way.

I grew up in the eighties to a variety of underground acts like the Jesus and Mary Chain, The La's, Violent Femmes and so forth, but that was all brought about by my cousins and classmates who would introduced me to all the bands I'm supposed to name when discussing the groups I listened to while growing up.

"Shenandoah was one of the first groups to rebel against the urban cowboy image of the '80s and lead the way to the new traditionalism of the '90s." The group, like many others of that rock flavored country genre, is still going strong.

Earlier this month the headline on an op-ed column posed the question, ''Are Valley Latinos falling behind in visibility?'' Given the current immigration propaganda and political rhetoric, the Shenandoah beating death of Luis Edwardo Ramirez, and the H1N1 being blamed on Mexicans, why would Latinos want to risk visibility? In the meantime, ...

Shenandoah is a red-feathered hen nestled under the right arm of Anna Mae Conrad, who is 10 and lives in Takoma Park, Md.

Brandon Piekarsky and Derrick Donchak crowd into elevator as they leave Schuylkill County Courthouse after being found not guilty of most counts in the beating death of illegal immigrant Luis Ramirez.

East Texas Broadcasting and the Paris Visitors and Convention Council will showcase an array of regional music artists at a free, all-day music festival June 13.

Minorities in the U.S. have joined efforts to raise consciousness in the country on hate crimes targeting minorities and immigrants when the country is facing economic recession.

People from all around the country could soon converge on the tiny borough of Shenandoah in Schuylkill County.

Instead, the jury found the teens not guilty of all serious charges, a decision that elicited cheers and claps from the defendants' families and friends and cries of outrage from the victim's. Brandon Piekarsky, 17, was acquitted of third-degree murder and ethnic intimidation, while Derrick Donchak, 19, was acquitted of aggravated assault and ...

One of Lennar's featured homes this week is the Merlot plan in Shenandoah at Blackstone in El Dorado Hills.