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50 Years Ago
Oct. 3, 1973
Yeung Sing Loo and cousin Kai Fai Lo of Hong Kong planned to open the China House restaurant in the R.E. Lee Hotel. - The Rockbridge County School Board approved a pilot program to help pre-high school students learn about life in the upper grades. The program, originally known as the “Stop Dope” campaign, was called Schools Organized for Developing Attitudes or SODA. - 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 spent the night on a rock and resumed finding her way out of the woods at daybreak Monday. -A new bookmobile was delivered to the Botetourt-Rockbridge Regional Library.
20 Years Ago
Oct. 8, 2003
The Rockbridge Area YMCA opened its doors in a temporary space in the Summit Square shopping center on Walker Street. -A home on South River that was spared from the flooding brought on by Hurricane Isabel barely escaped destruction when a 16-car freight train derailed near Cornwall. - Glasgow Town Council voted to not make any changes to the town ordinance forbidding hard liquor sales.
