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At a joint meeting last week, the Rockbridge County School Board presented their updated capital improvements plan to the Board of Supervisors.

The Lexington City Council and School Board held a joint work session last Thursday to get an update from Lexington City Schools Superintendent Rebecca Walters on some of the schools finances, including capital projects and some proposed budget amendments.

Audience Hears Both Sides During Debate At W&L

Because thriving rural communities must provide opportunities for young people to start farming and business enterprises, the Rockbridge County Farm Bureau is pleased to announce the 2024 micro-grant program.

Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for more than 71 million Americans will increase 3.2 percent in 2024, the Social Security Administration has announced. On average, Social Security retirement benefits will increase by more than $50 per month starting in January.

On Oct. 12, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2024 premiums, deductibles, and coinsurance amounts for the Medicare Part A and Part B programs.

There will be a farewell reception for Clyde and Jeri Keen Nov. 12 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Manly Memorial Baptist Church located at 202 S. Main St.

Mountain Gateway Community College is scheduled to open its first career center, with a mission to assist all MGCC students in locating gainful employment in their chosen field of study, at the beginning of the 2024 spring semester in January, according to Dr. Matt McGraw, MGCC chief workforce officer.

THERE IS AN OPENING on the Rockbridge Area Community Services Board. This is a three-year term that will begin on January 1, 2024, and expire on December 31, 2026. You must be a citizen of Buena Vista to serve. For more information or to apply, please contact Sarah Burch, City Manager’s Office, 2039 Sycamore Avenue, Buena Vista, VA at (540) 261-8601 or email [email protected].

Local, Assembly Races On Rockbridge Ballots

The updated COVID-19 vaccine is now available in the Rockbridge area for everyone 6 months and older, regardless of how many vaccines and boosters they’ve already received.

How to better promote commerce and economic vitality in Buena Vista was the central theme of a forum last Tuesday, Oct. 24, for candidates for City Council and mayor. The forum, sponsored by the chamber of commerce, was held at the Ramsey Education Center.

The six candidates running in reconfigured districts of the General Assembly who would represent the Rockbridge area have contrasting views on marijuana laws.

The Buena Vista School Board last Thursday evening approved the distribution of the new state funds that the division is receiving from Governor Younkin’s All In VA initiative.

Returning To Where It Began, Musician Recalls Career

Representatives from the NASA Langley Research Center will be at Mountain Gateway Community College’s Moomaw Center in Clifton Forge on Monday, Nov. 13, from 2 to 4 p.m.

In Memory of Carl Planck, 26 October, 2022 & Patty Planck, 27 October, 2012.