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50 Years Ago
Dec. 18, 1974
Buena Vista City Council made plans to hire an independent insurance consultant after learning that the city has been paying insurance premiums for vehicles the city did not own. In one stance, the city had paid $78 for insurance to cover a twoton pickup truck that never belonged to the city. - The latest allocation of state money for support of Virginia’s schools was cut by nearly 5 percent. In Rockbridge County, this meant a total of cut of $70,000 by the end of the school year. - Several members of the Peoples Baptist Church presented an appeal of the Buena Vista School Board’s decision to retain the Responding series of English text books in the city’s high school curriculum, citing that the decision to keep the books “does not reflect the moral attitudes of an important sector of our community.”
20 Years Ago
Dec. 22, 2004
Stonewall Jackson Hospital’s board of directors and Carilion Health System reached a verbal agreement in which Carilion would become a majority owner of the hospital. - Actor Tom Cruise, who was in town filming “War of the Worlds,” left $5,000 in a donation jar at Dairy Queen to help out the medical expenses for Ashley Flint, an 11-year-old who had been injured in a gocart accident. -A federal grant worth $1,358,284 was awarded to Rockbridge County to buy and demolish 26 flood prone homes along South River.
