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Newspaper
The Valley Banner
Location
Elkton, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 2012
Page
1
East Rockingham High School students will present Rogers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music Thursday through Sunday. The musical debuted in 1959 and is set in Austria in 1938 during the Nazi annexation, blending joyful music with hopeful humor amid dark times.
Elkton Town Council unanimously voted 6 0 to deny Koogler s 72 unit affordable housing project on Newtown Road and to not approve the rezoning of 10 acres, ending months of planning. Margaretta Dean Isom led the motion after council review with Town Attorney Lauri Sigler.
Wilda Billhimer of Elkton received a phone call posing as her grandson Scott claiming he and a friend were arrested on drug charges and needed bail. The women planned to travel to Harrisonburg to deliver about 2400 dollars, but a K-Mart manager in Harrisonburg flagged the scheme and confirmed no arrest record. The scam is part of a rising “grandparent scam” pattern in the Lynchburg area.
Local Scout leader Alex Wiatt of Elkton was honored with the Silver Beaver medal at a Feb. 10 dinner in Waynesboro. About 160 people attended including the Stonewall Jackson Area Council and Shenandoah Valley and Charlottesville councils. Wiatt noted a family legacy, saying his great grandfather and father were Silver Beavers and that he was invited to the Waynesboro event in early February.
Local governments face a ticking clock as the biannual budget stalls between houses. Fiscal bills passed to the opposite chamber for debate while both houses rush to complete their versions with reduced state aid potential.
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