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50 Years Ago
Sept. 26, 1973
The State Highway Department began advertising for bids for the first section of the Lexington bypass section of Interstate-64. - The Rockbridge County Sheriff’s Department won a court-ordered pay increase that Sheriff W.B. Chittum declared was necessary to put the department in line with other localities. - Seventeen-year-old Burn K. Thompson of Roanoke spent a long, cold, hungry Sunday night in the woods near Natural Bridge after becoming separated from a group of hikers. She stayed awake all night perched on a rock and resumed finding her way out of the woods at daybreak Monday.
20 Years Ago
Oct. 1, 2003
South River residents began to clean up after the flooding from Hurricane Isabel. - Soldiers from Company B, 2nd Battalion, 116th Infantry, Virginia National Guard came home to a hero’s welcome from friends and family after an 11month deployment, most of which was spent guarding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. -A bomb scare closed the Rockbridge County and Lexington circuit and lower courts on a Friday afternoon.
