Local Stories
Local Stories from the New Castle Record.
JRHS students do it again – make great Santas
James River High School students are getting a reputation as great Santas. The school again has proven its generosity by...
Read moreHoliday activitities continue in Buchanan
The James River High School Marching Band took top honors in the Non-Religious Division and the Virginia Presbyterian Church float...
Read moreAdkins produces pictorial history of the Appalachian Trail in Virginia
Leonard Adkins has spent a lot of time on the Appalachian Trail, and now he has teamed up with the...
Read moreTravel to the Smokies in Attic Production’s annual Christmas show
The heartwarming holiday show “Papa’s Angels” opens this week at the D. Geraldine Lawson Performing Arts Theater just south of...
Read moreDiarist now has a name
BOTETOURT - Carrie Lee Hamilton, who died in 1952, was the author of the 1904 diary found by a Craig...
Read more‘A wild hair’ led taxidermist to open his own local studio
BOTETOURT - Trophy Keepers Taxidermy and Wildlife Studio’s been open just over a year in the shop owners John and...
Read moreMarching Cavaliers have a field day, win the state championship
The Lord Botetourt High School Marching Cavaliers performed their 2009 show "Phobias" at the Unites States Scholastic Band Association's Virginia...
Read moreOpen space and towns were meetings concerns
BOTETOURT - If there was a theme to Saturday’s two public forums about updating the county’s Comprehensive Plan, it might...
Read moreAnnual race run briskly below cloudy, chilly skies
BOTETOURT - There was no sunshine to warm the nearly 800 runners who competed in Saturday’s The Bank of Fincastle...
Read moreMemories flow through JRHS’s 50th anniversary
BOTETOURT - Several hundred alumni, students, former and current staff, their families and friends from the community used Sunday afternoon,...
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