County Begins Its Budget Work

BY ROBERTA ANDERSON

Right now, Rockbridge County is looking to come up with some $217,684 to balance next year’s budget.

Bob Claytor, the county’s director of fiscal...

Schools Turn Now To County

BY KIT HUFFMAN

Having accepted that large cuts in state funding for education appear inevitable, some citizens and school officials are moving toward requesting more funding...

First Step

A backhoe pulls down a portion of the building at the northeastern corner of Main and Nelson streets Saturday morning as workers make way for...

Say Aaaahhh

JOEL SMITH (at left), a Lexington dentist, extracts a tooth from Amabilia Cartagena’s mouth while getting some assistance from Kayela Bridge (at right), a pre-dental...

Hundreds Turn Out For Medical Clinic

BY CLAUDIA SCHWAB

Edward “Monty” Smith of Lexington sat in the busy basketball complex at Southern Virginia University Saturday with his children Dylan, 8, and Hailey,...

Contests Readied For BV Elections

Gibson To Challenge Clements For Mayor

BY ED SMITH

Eleven candidates have filed to run in the May municipal elections in Buena Vista. Elections are being held...

Negotiations With RRR Not Dead

BY ED SMITH

The door hasn’t been shut on the prospect of Rockbridge Resource Recovery getting the job to handle all of the area’s comprehensive solid...

TCO Has Own Ideas For Dealership Signs

BY KIT HUFFMAN

Whether current signage rules can, or should, be changed to accommodate a particular business continues to be an issue for county planning boards.

The...

Corporate Move Could Affect Jobs At NB Plant

Some Production May Be Shifted To Other Facilities

BY KIT HUFFMAN

The same late winter that saw the closing of Bontex in Buena Vista brought change in...

Up Next For Reamer: Commercial Real Estate

BV’s Economic Developer Leaving After Four Years

BY KIT HUFFMAN

Tim Reamer, director of economic development for the city of Buena Vista, announced last Wednesday that he...

Bontex Site To Go On Auction Block

BY KIT HUFFMAN

One of Buena Vista’s founding factories will come under the hammer later this month.

A notice of trustee’s sale of the Bontex property was...

Auditions Set For Lime Kiln Musicals

Lime Kiln and Mindbending Productions will hold spring auditions next Thursday, March 18, at 6:30 p.m. in the Johnson Theatre at the Lenfest Center for...

Former Public Relations Society CEO To Speak

Reed Bolton Byrum, former president and CEO of the Public Relations Society of America, will give the keynote address for Washington and Lee University’s 49th...

Lexington May Raise Utility Rates

Hearing March 18 On Possibility Of Immediate Hike

BY ROBERTA ANDERSON

The city of Lexington is facing a real possibility of finishing the year in the red...

BV Engineer: Fixing City's Own Water System Best Option

BY ED SMITH

Installing a filtration system so that a couple of Buena Vista’s wells could be reopened would be less costly and could be...

High-Tech Treasure Hunt Coming To Area

Lexington and the Rockbridge Area Tourism will hold two separate Geocache training sessions to encourage local participation in the Gems of Rockbridge Geocache Trail, which...

Teen Counselors Sought For 4-H Summer Camp

Applications are available in the Rockbridge County Extension office for teens interested in applying to be counselors- in-training or teen counselors at this year’s 4-H...