Annual EPIC Holiday Home Tour invites Shenandoah region guests
The Elkton Progressive Improvement Committee hosts a Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. holiday tour featuring Shenandoah Valley Farm and Inn on Bloomer Springs Road. The 1825 house built by postmaster Tobias McGahey sits on cattle and vacation property with seven cottages. the Civil War bank barn with a Sheridan-era lower level tennis court remains, and owner Charles Dixon notes modernized interiors with added rooms and a sun parlor.
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Charles Dixon
Shenandoah Valley
Betty
EPIC
Ted Hayes
Elkton
Philip Sheridan
Elkton hosts first Christmas parade with bazaar and sleigh ride
A full slate of Elkton Christmas events unfolds this Saturday led by the town’s first parade. Thirty entries include local merchants and East Rockingham High School Marching Band. Santa will ride a sleigh as free rides are offered at the Elkton Area Community Center along with a 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. bazaar. Local authors sign books at the Welcome Center while volunteers collect unwrapped toys for a police toy drive.
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Elkton
S. Stuart Avenue
Blue and Gold Drive
Elkton Area
Charlotte Shifflett
Robbie Ann Davis
Elkton Police
Virginia Dreams Center
EACC
Old Spotswood Trail
Sara Maude Robinson
Hobby
Jessie Robinson
Jessie
Bonnie Gardner Shifflett
Price returns home from Afghanistan for Thanksgiving
Captain Brandon Price, Eagle Scout and Page County High School graduate, finished officer training at Virginia Military Institute and earned a captain’s rank with the 101st Airborne. On a rare R and R in late November, he reunited with his wife Bethany and daughter Chloe before returning to Kabul and Bajram Air Base for another tour.
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U.S. Army
Brandon Price
Bart
Patty Price
Chloe
Bethany
Ethan
Shenandoah
Afghanistan
Page County High
Virginia Military Institute
Page County High School
Lexington
Price
101St Airborne
Kabul
Gram Air Base
Patty
Luray
Capt
Charlottesville
Monger merger links Dixie Gas with Monger Coal and Oil
Elkton based Monger families merge with Dixie Gas and Oil Corpora tion owner Chris Earhart to form a new venture stretching across nine Virginia counties and one in West Virginia. Billie Jo Monger praises the move as a careful decision benefiting customers and neighbors. The merged company expands a long history dating back to 1946 with coal, heating oil, and gasoline services.
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Lloyd
Billie Jo Monger
Elkton
Chris Earhart
Dixie Gas and Oil Corporation of
Verona
Monger Coal
Virginia
West Virginia
Mr. Earhart
Monger Coal and Oil
Lloyd Monger
Rockingham County
Esso
Dixie Gas
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Capt. Price
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Joshua Gooden
Lanny Burt
Sue Olson
Dean Withers
Monger
Dixie Gas & Oil
Doris J. Beverly-Jones
Seffner
Fla
Arnold W. Breeden
Ivan L. Campbell
Brian D. Crantz
Grottoes
James R. Gray
John H. Hall
Loris
C. Clarice B. White
Stanley
Casey Billhimer
G.W. Walton's
C.W. McGuire's
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