February 03, 2010
Edition (rss)

Email Address
Password

 
Log in above for full coverage, or subscribe now!







Community FYI

Introducing Lexington, VA


View all
special sections

photo reprints

Site Map
News content published by
The News-Gazette.
Internet Edition managed using
First Day Story.
© 2010. All Rights Reserved.

Winter Storm Warning Issued

Winter Storm Warning Issued

Updated, 8 p.m. Monday

The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather warning for this area of the state, starting Monday at...

Kiln To Preview New Production With Reading

Theater at Lime Kiln will conduct a reading of “Savage Nation,” a new play about colonial Augusta County, tomorrow, Thursday, at 6:30 p.m. in Room 2017, Wilson Hall at Washington and Lee University.


“Savage Nation” tells the story of Cornstalk, the Shawnee chief who most credit with leading the raids on Kerrs Creek and Big Spring in the mid-1700s. The play presents...

Social Services Employees Urge Safer Parking Option

By Roberta Anderson
The municipal parking garage is inconveniently located and is not safe at night.


This was the message that a group of female employees of the Rockbridge Area Social Services delivered to Lexington City Council last week.


The Social Services office is located on Preston Street some three blocks from the parking garage adjacent to the new Rockbridge County Courthouse....

News and Features

A Winter With No End In Sight

Winter weather keeps pounding the Rockbridge area. Starting last Friday night and continuing through Saturday, another major storm dumped 6-10 inches of snow on the...

'The Chicken Tastes Better'

Local Food Use Rising For W&L Dining

Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part look at the impact the locally grown foods movement is...

Former Area Real Estate Agent Indicted

Grand Jury Indicts Volpe On Nine Counts Of Embezzlement

Former Lexington real estate agent and developer S. Charles Volpe, 56, of 97 Ruined Bridge Lane, Vesuvius,...

Afghanistan Often Oversimplified

NPR Reporter Says Best Solution To War Is Political

BY ALEXANDRE ROURK

Back from her nearly yearlong assignment in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Jackie Northam opened with a...

Meetings

Thursday, Feb. 4

4 p.m. – Lexington Architectural Review Board, City Hall.

6:30 – Lexington City Council work session, to discuss personnel, county administration building.

8 p.m. –...

SVU Alumna To Speak Friday

Southern Virginia University alumna Kindee Nielsen Dixon, vice president of operations at The Foundation for a Better Life and president of World of Difference, will...

Sculpturing Topic For Garden Club

Betty Taylor gave a program on sculpturing vegetables and pastries to enhance food platters at the January meeting of the Town and Country Garden Club,...

New Directors Join Area Hospice Board

Rockbridge Area Hospice welcomed three new members to its board of directors at its annual meeting on Jan. 22. The new members are Carole Judy,...

AARP Program Offers Tax Help At Library

Free income tax assistance is now available to low- to middleincome taxpayers twice a week through April 12 at Rockbridge Regional Library.

Assistance is being offered...

Mayock Wins Top Faculty Award From State Council

Ellen C. Mayock, professor of Spanish at Washington and Lee University, has received a 2010 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education...

Biosolids Issue Debated At Meeting

Firm Asks To Use Sites In Rockbridge

BY ROBERTA ANDERSON

A request to increase the number acres permitted used for biosolids land application in the Jonestown area...

Former Student Charged With Dealing Cocaine

Lexington police have charged a now former Washington and Lee student with distributing cocaine.

Peter Joseph Martinez, 22, of Holliston, Mass., was arrested on Jan. 23...

Taster's Choice Event Postponed

Out of concern for possible snow again this week, Yellow Brick Road has decided to postpone its Taster’s Choice event scheduled for this Saturday.

Organizers have...



Arc Leader Thanked

Linda Baumann stands with Rockbridge Area Community Services Board Executive Director Dennis Cropper (left) and RACS board member Richard Bidlack after being honored Jan. 27...

Time To Consider

Jon Repair
Extension Agent

Farmer’s Income Tax Guides

Just a reminder that we have the 2009 Farmer’s Income Tax Guide available at our office.

Many people do...

Officials Say H1N1 May Not Be Done

Public health officials warn of a possible “third wave” of H1N1 influenza to occur this winter, following the first two widespread infection periods of last...

Local JAKES Event Featured On TV Show

The Rockbridge County JAKES event will be featured on “Turkey Call,” a National Wild Turkey Federation television show, on the Pursuit Channel.

The segment is scheduled...

Session Newsletter Senator R. Creigh Deeds Jan. 29, 2010

Session Newsletter Senator R. Creigh Deeds Jan. 29, 2010


The General Assembly session is now in full swing. The subcommittees and committees meet around-the-clock,...

Snow Scenes

Morning sun peeks through the trees after last weekend’s snowfall. For a slide show of photos from that snowstorm, click here. (photos in the...

Waddell's

Friday’s  rescheduled performance of “Oklahoma” at Waddell Elementary School has now been postoponed again due to the impending bad weather.

The show will go on Monday, Feb....

Culinary Classes To Be Offered At DSLCC

Pat Ohleger, former chef and owner of Main Street Marketing and Catering in Lexington and current owner of Uncorked in Buena Vista, will teach a...

Input Sought On County Comprehensive Plan

The Rockbridge County Planning Commission is holding a public informational meeting on the economic goals and strategies of the next proposed comprehensive plan next Wednesday,...

Headlines

Community

County Correspondents

Opinion

People

Sports

Religion

Education

Lifestyle

Happenings

Obituaries