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50 Years Ago
Oct. 9, 1974
The Rockbridge County School Board scrapped its plan to build a comprehensive high school for both the county and the city of Lexington. The estimated cost of the proposed facility doubled from the original figure of approximately $3.5 million three years before to the most recent bid of just over $7.5 million. - Virginia Military Institute asked Lexington City Council to relieve it of a 3½-year-old commitment not to buy residential property on North Main Street. The promise not to buy land had been made in May 1971 by then VMI superintendent Gen. R.E. Shell after council asked VMI to consider Lexington’s housing shortage in its planning for a multi-use auditorium. - The Lexington city planning commission invited the public to discuss possible future uses of the city’s former Ann Smith school building.
20 Years Ago
Oct. 13, 2004
As a result of a nationwide flu vaccine shortage, rationing was considered the best hope of making sure those at highest risk for the flu would receive the vaccine. - The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation providing assistance to landowners in Rockbridge County who sustained damages from Hurricane Isabel. Rockbridge was among five counties in the Sixth Congressional District waiting for the $1.76 million in disaster assistance.
