
Valley Playhouse presents Messiah on the Frigidaire in August
Messiah on the Frigidaire by playwright John Culbertson will be presented by Valley Playhouse on Aug. 2-5 and Aug. 9-12 at the Court Square Theater

Messiah on the Frigidaire by playwright John Culbertson will be presented by Valley Playhouse on Aug. 2-5 and Aug. 9-12 at the Court Square Theater

After dominating out of the gate, Matt Barnes could not make it through the fourth inning on Tuesday night. Five straight Pelicans reached base with two outs in the last of the fourth, leading to four runs, and Myrtle Beach eased past Salem 10-3 to complete the three game sweep of the Red Sox at TicketReturn.Com Field

The Shenandoah Valley Art Center, during the month of July, is exhibiting the works of artist, Lois Schlachter, versatile painter for the past forty years. This Spring Mount, Pa., artist is as comfortable honing her skills with realism in oils as with abstracts painted in acrylics. The exhibit features a series of Abstract Expressionist-style acrylic paintings, rich in color and dynamic in composition

Kyle Hendricks tossed eight strong innings for Myrtle Beach, outdueling Keith Couch in the Pelicans’ slim 4-3 victory over the Red Sox on Monday evening at TicketReturn.Com Field

For the second time in as many days and the third time in the last week, the Salem Sox experienced their worst loss of the season. After falling 8-0 to Winston-Salem on Monday and losing 13-4 to Potomac on Saturday, the scuffling Sox were trounced 16-3 by Myrtle Beach on Sunday evening at TicketReturn.Com Field

Gov. Bob McDonnell has signed Executive Directive No. 4 establishing a workgroup to develop a plan for implementing a program to screen babies born in Virginia for a life-threatening condition called critical congenital heart disease (CCHD). In Virginia, almost 4 in 1,000 newborns are diagnosed each year with one of the defects causing CCHD

George Allen took his “Virginia Voices” campaign to Chester on Tuesday to hear directly from a locally-owned manufacturing business, Progressive Engineering and Progressive Heat Treating. He was joined by Chesterfield County Board of Supervisor Dorothy Jaeckle and Chesterfield County GOP Chairman Don Williams to tour one of Chester’s innovative job creators

The U.S. Supreme Court this morning handed down a mixed decision in Arizona v. United States, a case challenging that state’s SB 1070 law, which is based on the controversial Prince William County ordinance that was cast aside as unworkable in 2008. While throwing out provisions making it a state crime to be in the country illegally and to make it a state crime to seek work, the Court refused to say that the Arizona “show me your papers” law was invalid on its face, without additional facts and an interpretation of the law by the Arizona Courts

Luray rallied from an early 5-0 deficit to send the game into extra innings, and then had to hold off an 11th-inning Waynesboro rally en route to a 9-8 win Saturday. Before a season-high crowd of 583, two of the hotter teams in summer baseball – Luray had come in having won nine of 10, and Waynesboro had won nine of its previous 11 – put on a show

The Waynesboro Generals offense exploded for a second straight night, launching three home runs among their 20 base hits in a wild 13-9 win over Woodstock Thursday. Brandon Murray continued his torrid mid-week, going 3-for-4 with another home run, his league-leading fifth, and fourth in two nights