Valley Banner RSS http://www.dnronline.com/rss_vb.php en-us HARRISONBURG — Turner Ashby swept a boys and girls tri-meet against Massanutten District rivals Spotswood and Harrisonburg last Wednesday. The TA girls topped Harrisonburg, 73-51, with Spotswood in third place with 47 points. Brianna Mitchell, Jessy Moubray, Meghan Clark and Melinda Laycock earned event victories for the Bl http://www.dailynews-record.com/news_details.php?AID=16674&CHID=44 ELKTON — It’s springtime at Elkton Middle School, and the thoughts of some students have lightly turned to horticulture, and the planting of vegetables and flowers. This was not quite the result anticipated by poet Tennyson, who suggested “love,” not gardening, as the object of springtime attention. But fo http://www.dailynews-record.com/news_details.php?AID=16675&CHID=44 ELKTON —  You can tell a book by its cover, goes the old saw. But there are several aspects to the just-published Elkton Centennial Jubilee Cookbook, compiled by Colleen Grady, that don’t quite fit the old saying. Not many would suspect a recipe for “Onion Pie,” submitted by Wanda Billhimer, would be hiding i http://www.dailynews-record.com/news_details.php?AID=16676&CHID=44 ELKTON — Trying its wings for the first time at public meetings, the local group “A Better Elkton” held a meeting last Friday night at the Elkton Area Community Center. The meeting was billed as an opportunity for citizens to present their views on town politics. “This is not a debate,” said convener http://www.dailynews-record.com/news_details.php?AID=16677&CHID=44