Elkton council backs truck purchase amid debt loan debate
Elkton Town Council approved buying a garbage truck for just over 144000 amid talk of using a 34 million loan from Virginia. Council seeks private bridge financing until state funds materialize and considers collateral against water sewer and electric rates. The decision follows a bid from The Truck Center Weyers Cove and notes a pending DEQ review.
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Elkton
Rockingham
Weyers Cove
Reid Wodicka
Randell Snow
State of Virginia
Department of Environmental Quality
Rick Workman
Snow
Council
Virginia
Elkton Chili Cookoff Returns May Day at EACC
Elkton plans a full day May 1 behind the Elkton Area Community Center with 20 cookers, food from local groups, 20 to 25 artists, a spring cruise-in by Tim May, and a book signing by author Sondra Smith for her new work on words that sound alike.
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Elkton
Elkton Area
Tim May
Sondra Smith
Elkton Spring Festival Opens Wednesday at Blue Ridge Park
The 18th Elkton Spring festival begins Wednesday April 21 at Blue Ridge Park on U S 340 north of Elkton and runs through Saturday April 24. Sponsored by Blue Ridge Council No 149 of the Junior OUAM Lodge. Five Star Attractions provides carnival rides with armbands sold nightly. A Saturday matinee from 1 to 5 p m offers reduced ride rates.
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Elkton
Blue Ridge Park
U.S. 340
Blue Ridge Coucil No. 149
Junior Ouam Lodge
Five Star
Computer seminar scheduled May 8 to help businesses promote themselves
Shenandoah residents credit a group of locals for saving an all day seminar on using web sites to grow business. The event titled Operating Expanding and Promoting Your Business With Computer Technology runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Shenandoah Community Center on Second Street and is free.
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Shenandoah
Council
Second Street
Patterson
Prescribed Burn Scorches 1000 Acres in Massanutten Region
Forestry officials conducted a prescribed burn along Forest Development Road 65 in the Massanutten Second Mountain area of George Washington National Forest. Smoke rose before lunch last Thursday with ashes drifting toward Elkton, captured from the Little League field at Blue Ridge Park.
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Massanutten Second Mountain
George Washington National Forest
Elkton
Blue Ridge Park
Old-Time Shenandoah Apples Saved By Grafting Enthusiasts
In the Shenandoah Valley a movement preserves hundreds of vanished apple varieties by grafting cuttings onto young trees. Greg Lam Sheldon Meadows and Clyde Jenkins lead a small group dedicated to saving traits for cider butter pies brandy and preserves while spotlighting varieties like Little Punkin used for brandy and saved locally.
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Shenandoah Valley
Greg Lam
Naked Creek
Sheldon Meadows
Lam
Meadows
Clyde Jenkins
Stanley
Shenandoah Considers Taxes to Bridge Budget Gap
Shenandoah Town Council pursues a balanced budget for the new fiscal year starting July 1 with modest cuts and tax increases to cover a shortfall of about 65 000 dollars. Council members cite reduced real estate revenues from a county reassessment and lower state utilities franchise payback as drivers of the gap.
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Shenandoah Town
Richard Pierce
Shenandoah Council
Virginia
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