Natural Bridge State Park unveiled a “LOVE” sign up by the Visitors Center. It was designed and created by Rockbridge County artist Mark Cline, and joins over two-hundred other LOVE signs across the commonwealth funded by a special state grant program from the Virginia Tourism Corporation.
A rare copy of a 1791 book returned to Washington and Lee University's Special Collections and Archives.
Covington announced that Recycling and Disposal Solutions will now be managing the city’s recycling program. It had been handled by a local non-profit.
Though some businesses suffered this summer, Dinosaur Kingdom II and the Safari Park of Virginia saw lots of visitors.
Renovation work began last month on a building across the street from city hall to become Augusta Health Buena Vista Primary Care.
Not so long ago, you would find recycling bins out on the curbs in Lexington.Now, it’s another victim of COVID and everything goes in the garbage and gets sent to the landfill.
The Central Shenandoah Health District had testing set up at the Rockbridge County Emergency Communications Center in Buena Vista Tuesday.
VMI graduate Lara Tyler Chambers met and talked with Ruth Bader Ginsburg before her 2017 speech in Lexington.
A new state grant for $2.2 million dollars will be used to provide fiber infrastructure to help bridge the digital divide to four project areas located in Rockbridge County.
“She was a fighter,” said Washington & Lee Univ. Law School Prof. Johanna Bond of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bade Ginsburg. "I mean that’s one of the lasting impressions I have of her.”
If you face difficulty putting food on the table or providing a present for your child this Christmas, applications became available this week.
Buena Vista has now turned to a team to put together a plan. It’s a two or three-month process that starts with surveys and other data gathering.
The library system has set up a Learning Hub in front of the library on Lexington's Main Street with picnic tables under a tent and free Wi-Fi available from the library’s router.
The dance family at Rockbridge Ballet moved some stuff around, set up a few rules so dance class could go on, and made room for school.
Ruger fell off a bluff near the Blue Ridge Parkway, so far that his owners had to call in help from the Glasgow and Buena Vista Fire Departments.
A chromebook issued for a high schooler burst into flames at night while recharging.
Quaker Steak and Oil is a themed restaurant serving everything from steaks to chicken wings, all in a decor featuring local race cars and motorcycles.
The Rockbridge Area Republicans were the only ones to have a gathering this year. The Democrats decided to forgo their breakfast because of COVID.
In past years, it was busy downtown on Labor Day, with the parade marching through town, but this year the roads are empty as the parade was canceled.
The third annual gathering of car enthusiasts with their auto, the Greenbrier Concours D’Elegance, began with a drive on West Virginia roads Friday.
Everyone from the Wildcat mascot to teachers and staff got together to do a lip synch video to bring a positive start to the school year, which will be all remote for the high school for the first nine weeks.
A crane and trucks were at Rockbridge County High School to move a Habitat for Humanity home to its final location in a nearby housing development.
Friday's the opening night for the Art for Arf program. Participants got 10x10 canvasses from the Rockbridge Area SPCA to make whatever animal-featured artwork they were moved to make.
Over 30 years, Leroy Watts has collected more than 4,500 salt and pepper shakers.
The board member’s critics now say that a resignation is what they expect, or they will take further action.
The Washington and Lee English for Speakers of Other Languages Program and 50 Ways Rockbridge are reaching out via social media for gently used laptops and iPads that they can recondition and get to people who need access to equipment, but can’t afford it.
Rockbridge County schools are getting ready for the start of school next week, and that means making sure the bus drivers are ready for the kindergarten through first graders, who can do in person learning while second through 12th grades are remote.
The Rockbridge County schools’ IT people have moved into a classroom, bringing all their tech and student and teacher chromebooks with them, preparing for the schools to open with all remote instruction September 8.
Normally right about now, crowds would gather at Lexington’s Lime Kiln Theater to enjoy locally produced beer and wine, as well as food and music.To replace that, the Lexington and Rockbridge Area Chamber of Commerce has arranged a Local Brews and Spirits Passport.
The folks at The Mayflower care facility on Lexington’s Main Street were out early in the morning offering free breakfasts to whoever drove by, including first responders.
The cadets for the class of 2025 will not have to take admissions tests like the SAT or ACT when they apply to the college.
Clifton Forge churches received thousands of pounds of meat for their food pantries.
The Lexington Moose Riders will be on the roads of Rockbridge County for a Dice Ride fundraiser starting at 9:30 Sunday morning to help support the lodge’s annual Veterans Dinner.
The Rockbridge Area YMCA is launching Enrichment Centers for youth ages five to twelve at three locations in the county.
Bath County students from kindergarten to high school are having to learn many new rules in their classrooms as they’ve made some changes to adapt to COVID.
The trial of former Rockbridge Regional Jail Superintendent John Higgins has gone to the judge.Higgins is being tried on twenty-one federal charges related to his work at the jail, triggered by accusations of abuse from prisoners in 2017.
Game wardens and locals are hoping to find who killed two well known bald eagles that lived on a farm in Highland County.
The Bluegrass Resource Center has begun work stabilizing the foundation and removing the dangerously unsafe porches thanks to a grant from the state.
A horse fell into an eight-foot-deep hole, but local rescuers were able to pull him out.
Lexington City Schools will now start remotely on September 8 rather than in person, and will stay remote for the first nine weeks.
A coalition of area organizations is supporting the Walker Program, a new community initiative that will help jumpstart businesses owned by people of color in Lexington, Buena Vista and Rockbridge County.
Lexington Firefighter Jarrod Hill recently won a second-place medal in the Firefighter Combat Challenge, where you drag a 175-pound dummy after running three stories up with a firehose, moving a sledge with a hammer and running an obstacle course.
The council decided earlier this month to change the name of the property where Stonewall Jackson is buried.
One-time grants of up to $15,000 based upon pre-COVID employment levels are being provided to businesses in the region to help offset losses due to the economic downturn from the virus.
The Rockbridge Regional Fair was cancelled this year, but the livestock show that’s usually at its heart went on.
Bears, not only feasting in a corn field, but even with a sheep and other livestock, dragged off and eaten. They’re always around, but farmers are saying the numbers and damage have increased.
To support local business with reopening, the Alleghany Highlands Chamber of Commerce is offering them help in getting personal protective equipment like masks, cleaning products and hand sanitizer.
In the classrooms, where desks are carefully placed well apart, teachers are preparing lesson plans, and in her office, Superintendent Rebecca Walters is working to find substitute teachers, nurses and custodians.
Tiffany Kidd of Rockbridge Raffles presented Buena Vista city schools with a check for $5,082.79, clearing all of the food program debt held by students in the system.
Fairfield Presbyterian Church’s “Helping Hands" market has a steady stream of customers