Confederate heritage honored at Miller K ite Museum event
Elkton observed Confederate History Month with a two day Civil War encampment tours music and a book signing. A memorial service at Elk Run Cemetery closed the weekend as crowds filled seats to hear Greg Lam and friends with 10th Virginia Infantry reenactors camping onsite. Jackson Stew was sold by the Elkton Welcome Committee, while Elkton Area United Services lent a kitchen.
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Elkton
Miller-Kite Museum
Elk Run
Dience
Greg Lam
10Th Virginia Infantry
Elkton Welcome Committee
Jackson
Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
Elkton Area
United Services
Camden Building
William Preston
Port Republic
Brent Allen
Harrisonburg
10Th Virginia Volunteer Infantry
Miller-Kite
Elkton coal to liquids research plan envisions 150 million project
Retired Exxon executive J C Powell proposed a coal to liquids and design quadrangle near Mount Pleasant Road in Elkton with 120 Ph D scientists and thousands of construction jobs. The plan includes a later refinery in south central Virginia and a total park cost around 150 to 160 million dollars plus roads and sewers.
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Exxon
J.C. Powell
Powell
Four Star Realty
Elkton Coal To Liquids Research and Design Quadrangle
Virginia Energy Independence Authority
United States
Virginia
U.S. Department of Energy
DOE
Elkton
Yond
Mount Pleasant Road
Elkton Research Park
Reid Wodicka
Elkton Man Lived Kidneyless After Dual Cancers
Delma Morris of Elkton, 69, survived cancer in both kidneys with both removed, last in 2007, and now relies on dialysis three days weekly. He notes people can live without kidneys, declines family donation, and recalls the 1990 onset with initial kidney removal at UVa Medical Center.
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Delma Morris
Elkton
Morris
University of
Charles) Miller
U.va
Race in Shenandoah Honors Lois Jean Comer
Nearly 100 friends former co workers and family gathered at the Comer house to remember Lois Jean Comer a Page County High School art teacher who died last September at age 67. Participants walked along her favorite walking path along the streets of Shenandoah using a mahogany walking stick.
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Ted Hayes
TVB
Linda West
Shenandoah
Lisa Tappy
Stanley
Kim Price
Page County
Lois Jean Comer
Comer
Maryland Avenue
Page County High School
Hackers Hamper Shenandoah Town Web Site
Hackers broke into Shenandoah town web pages aiming to implant a device that overloaded the host network and shut it down. Gary Patterson, a local computer expert, rebuilds the site from an older Roanoke built framework and aims to finish in about 30 days with 60 more days to restore full content.
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Shenandoah
Gary Patterson
Roanoke
Patterson
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