Elkton seeks markers for 142 unmarked graves at Elk Run Cemetery
Elkton identifies 142 unmarked graves at Elk Run Cemetery on East Spotswood Avenue using ground penetrating radar. The town plans 6 by 12 inch cement markers, funded by donations, to mark graves and free space for new plots amid a long historical context dating to 1823.
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Elkton
Elk Run
East Spotswood Avenue
Kevin Whitfield
North Street
Whitfield
Avery
Gerald Monger
Ingram and Hagen
Caleb M. Soptelean
Arnette Indicted in Two Pioneer Bank Robberies
A Page County grand jury in Luray indicted William Lee Arnette 60 on two armed bank robbery counts. Arnette allegedly held up Pioneer Bank in Luray April and Shenandoah Pioneer Bank in August, after being arrested August 12 following police pursuit. The April robbery was the second Pioneer Bank heist in four months. An unidentified white male initially robbed Luray Pioneer Bank near the Hast Luray Shopping Center.
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LURAY
Pioneer Bank
Shenandoah
William Lee Arnette
Shenan
Doah
Arnette
Page County
Hast Luray
Dr. Davis Returns to Cuba on Eased Travel Rules
Dr. Ronald Davis 63 visited Cuba Sept 7 on a mission to provide dental services to seminary students and teachers. He previously traveled illegally via Mexico due to the U S travel ban, but this trip followed new easing under Obama era policy allowing religious visas for Americans and Cuban officials.
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Elkton
Cuba
Ronald Davis
Davis
Mexico
U.S
Caribbean
Obama
Raul Castro
Fidel Castro
Annia Vives
Caleb M. Soptelean
Local woman charged as an accessory after murder
Augusta County Sheriff's Office charged Andrea Mullan, 32, of Elkton, with being an accessory after the fact to murder in the Mount Sidney shooting death last month. She was brought from New Jersey to Middle River Regional Jail in Verona for processing.
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Harrisonburg
Augusta County Sheriffs Office
Elkton
Mount Sidney
Andrea Mullan
Middle River
Verona
New Jersey
Elkton Lodge honors Mary Liz Humphrey with Community Builder Award
The Charles Franklin Shuler Masonic Lodge No 74 of Elkton presented longtime Elkton dance instructor Mary Liz Humphrey the Community Builder Award at a Sept 19 dinner at Wood Grill Buffet in Harrisonburg. Humphrey has taught dance in Elkton for 24 years.
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Charles Franklin Shuler Masonic Lodge No
Ashlar Masonic Lodge No. 125
Stephen Creech
Creech
Christ and Fields United Methodist Churches
Shenandoah
Richard Pierce
Wood Grill Buffet
Local couple raises funds with dime toss for cancer fight
Elkton couple Janet and Gary Puffenbarger organize a dime toss fundraiser after Gary’s mother died of liver cancer. Following a Family Fun Day last October that drew many volunteers, they plan this year’s event to benefit Relay for Life and other American Cancer Society efforts.
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Elkton
Janet
Gary Puffenbarger
Relay For Life
American Cancer Society
Gary
Lucy
Liv
Elkton Area
Janet Puffenbarger
Caleb M. Soptelean
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Elk Run Cemetery
Culpeper
J.F. McMillan
Dr. Davis
Mullan
Vida V. Armentrout
Keezler, Dealy C. Baker
Owen S. Davis
Allee
M. Gochenour
Penn Laird
Linwood C. Powell
Randall C. Shifflett
Tuttle
Okla
Wilbert Shiflett
Shirley J. Wenner
McGaheysville
Shenandoah National Park
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