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Newspaper
The Valley Banner
Location
Elkton, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 2010
Page
1
Elkton mayoral hopefuls Davis and Dearing outline steps to improve the business climate. Davis critiques planning excess and questions windfall spending while urging support for existing merchants and fair policy, and Dearing stresses town cleanup and downtown incentives.
Elkton hosts its 24th Autumn Days festival along B Street from Ashby to Terrace in front of Elkton Elementary School. The event runs 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday with dozens of arts and crafts vendors, handmade items, jewelry and street food offerings including brown beans, cornbread and funnel cakes.
Elkton receives the Virginia Municipal League Achievement Award in the under 5,000 population category at the VML banquet. Mayor Larry Bompiani and Town Manager Reid Wodicka accepted the honor with Councilmen Gene Kite and Randell Snow, joined by JMU intern Josh Althouse and Professor Nicholas Swartz. The award recognizes the town’s economic development plan crafted with JMU public administration interns, based on months of focus groups, surveys, and analyses of the Elkton Area Community Center and Elkton Police Department. Two JMU interns now serve in Elkton’s new Office of Economic Development.
The Autumn Days Car Show drew 44 entries on the same day as Elkton festival events in ShenElk Plaza. EPIC organizers Gene Kite and Larry Baugher led planning as shows spread to Elkton and three nearby towns this weekend.
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