Downtown Winchester Stores Not Planning Mall Move
A survey found no proof of downtown store closures or moves to the Winchester Mall. Chains like Leggett and Peoples Drug Store reaffirm ongoing downtown leases and growth, while officials push plans to attract new tenants and revitalize Loudoun Street businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lulu Williams
Winchester Mall
Mark Twain
Loudoun St
Interstate 81
W.E. Leggett
Charlottesville
Leggett
Lokie Voight
Peoples Drug
Peoples
Leggett’s
Irvin Shendon
Loudoun
No New Decisions on Hospital Area Issue
Winchester Planning Commission delayed a decision on the medical center district boundaries amid hospital staff and Citizens' Advisory Committee proposals. Competing plans from the hospital and residents include areas along Cork Clifford and Stewart streets with uses ranging from single family homes to clinics and parking garages. The commission adjourned without action, with no date set for further consideration, while also denying a separate rezoning request for Amherst Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission
Clifford
Medical Center
J. Fred Larrick
J. Lee Miller
Citizens’ Group
Cork and
Cork St
Stewart St
Cork
Lee St
Larrick
Reuss
Citizens
Miller
Ferman W. Perry
Winchester Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees
Reed T. Nester
Hospital
Carl S. Napps
Warren C. Gregory
Hampton P. Hylton
Amherst St
Front Royal approves 7000 foot water line extension to industrial site
The Front Royal Town Council reconvened to vote extending a water line 7000 feet east into the county toward a planned industrial park at Happy Creek with 2500 feet through Robert L. Leach's property. Leach funds pipe cost for six inch pipe while town covers 10 inch pipe price difference and hydrant installation. The council also considers a further 4500 foot extension to the industrial park with bids discussed and a possible contract with low bidder Stuart Vaught.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Front Royal
Happy Creek
Robert L. Leach
Leach
Happy Creek Road
Statton Hammock
Front Royal Warren County
Hammock
Stuart Vaught
Paul R. Hockman
Vaught
William A. Lillard
Thomas H. Gibson
Warren County
Walter Duncan
W.H. Jolly
Duncan
Jolly
Lillard
Fire Damages Winchester Apartment From Matches
A Winchester Gardens blaze at 2540 Wilson Blvd started in a bedroom when a box of clothing was ignited by a match. No injuries occurred as fire damaged one apartment heavily with light smoke to three others. Mrs Barbara Corbin slept through the fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy E. Potts
Winchester
S.R. Dyke
Winchester Gardens
Wilson Blvd
Barbara Corbin
Ted Kiracofe
Corbin
Ground Broken for New Bank in Stephens City
Officials of The Bank of Frederick County break ground for a new banking facility in Stephens City with Howard Shockey & Sons, Inc. as contractor. Completion is planned for January 1, 1975. The bank will be the first new Frederick County bank in over fifty years and the only independent bank in Winchester and Frederick County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of
Frederick County
Stephens City
Howard Shockey & Sons, Inc
John E. McAboy
Joseph W. White
Franklin H. Brumback
Oscar W. Sellars
Paul E. Bradshaw
Clara E
Libby) Jenkins
Lynn H. Comer
Ronald F. Miller
Winchester
Virginia
Main & School ST
Frederick
Time of Drowning Still Undetermined in Lam Case
Frederick County Medical Examiner Dr. Douglass O. Hill said the drowning death of Ernest Leon Lam remains unclear. Autopsy shows an empty stomach and witnesses pegged a Friday night disappearance near Clearbrook Park pool. a girl reports an 8:30 p.m. sighting, but officials await more reports to fix a time of death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Ackley
Frederick County
Douglass O. Hill
Ernest Leon Lam
Clearbrook Park
FFA
Lacy Anderson
Hill
Anderson
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ABC
S. Loudoun
Julius Armel
Berryville Ave
Once Upon
Handley Library
Belle Grove
Robert E. Shumate
Shumate
Susan Burke
Gibson
Stuart Royer
Council
Kermit W. Nichols
Bernard L. Stokes
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