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50 Years Ago
Dec. 17, 1973
A twin-engine mail plane on a routine flight from Richmond to West Virginia crashed in a remote mountainous area near Millboro in Bath County. - The biggest snowstorm in several years dumped up to a foot of snow on the area closing schools and canceling many activities. -A bee hive with a large cache of honey and an active swarm of bees was disturbed when a dead yellow locust tree was cut down in the yard of the Rockbridge Area Presbyterian Home.
20 Years Ago
Dec. 24, 2003
The Buena Vista Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was considering buying land on Thornhill Road for a new church. - The Natural Bridge Zoo was under investigation again when two Asiatic bears were killed after they escaped their enclosure when an employee failed to lock the cage properly. - Pearl Wapner, a second grader at Effinger Elementary School, wrote about celebrating Chanukah with her family in The News-Gazette’s annual children’s holiday writings feature. “I am glad that I am a Jew,” she said, “I’m glad that I’m not the only Jew in the school.”
