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He was the voice of numerous local radio stations, including K92, Sunny FM and Star Country.

Two biology students at Patrick Henry Community College got the opportunity of a lifetime, to study sharks in the Bahamas.

Alleghany Highlands Community Services set up a curbside pickup station in front of their offices in town to pass out some prevention resources.

Buena Vista is looking carefully at its plans for Labor Day.

The extension will connect a roundabout to a shell building that remains under construction.

Currently over 1,000 households face water disconnects that could happen as soon as September.

The box office is closed, and the poster boards are empty, and the theater’s capacity with social distancing so severely limited things that the Virginia Opry opted to postpone until 2021.

Parry McCluer Middle School received the 2020 Board of Education Highest Achievement Award.

A lot of events in our area have been cancelled because of COVID, but in Fairfield in northern Rockbridge County, they’ve decided the show, or rather the carnival, must go on.

The funds are being used for things like personal protective equipment.

Green Pastures was a gathering place for African-Americans for decades, one of just a handful of parks then available to them.

Last Thursday, a positive COVID test shut down the Rockbridge Area Relief Association, but now the doors are open, and they’re back at work

Anne Durr's party is being put off because of social distancing from COVID, but the folks at The Mayflower, where she lives, put out a call for some birthday cards in the meantime.

They said their building on Commerce Street is a difficult venue to safely have productions in due to the pandemic.

Buena Vista's annual Beach Music Festival has been cancelled.

When the thermometer approaches 100 degrees, people start looking for relief, and that means the folks in one ice cream shop, where they make everything in house, have been working as much in back as in front.

A group of knitters at Kendal in Lexington get together in groups of three at special “pods” to enjoy their hobby safely distanced.

Some gift cards will be handed out for "funny or cool" masks.

The Rockbridge Regional Library’s storytime went on the road, paying a visit to the Lexington fire house for the daily Facebook Live broadcast.

The Bolar Volunteer Rescue Squad will have their Community Day Saturday.

They plan to use the money to make renovations and expand service capacities.

Dabney S Lancaster Community College had high hopes for the Roadrunners when the program began in October of last year, but COVID has caused them to suspend practice and competition for this year.

They plan to have a total of 40 homes built by the end of 2021.

The Lexington Moose Riders brought by a dozen Tommy Moose plushies for deputies to carry with them.

The calisthenics at the first football workout might look familiar, but formations are spread out, using the yard lines as convenient markers for distancing, and everyone has his own backpack filled to provide weights for the workout.

They're restricting the space to 10 people at a time.

The Brownsburg Museum in Rockbridge County has converted their main display area into an old time country general store to help guests better understand the place the stores held in local life in the days before supermarkets.

While a few businesses remain closed, Clifton Forge is beginning to come back to life.

They have a goal of 10 iPads.

The technology would enforce speed limits in school zones.