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The Rockbridge Baths Volunteer Fire Department is seeking artists and crafters of all media as well as artisan food producers to participate as vendors in the first Fall Arts and Crafts Festival to be held on Saturday, Oct. 28, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the firehouse.

City of Lexington Notice of Public Hearings 626 Waddell Street Purchase, Sale, and Development Agreement First Amendment to Spotswood Purchase, Sale, and Development Agreement

Public Works Update Given

Move Would Allow Wastewater Plant Improvements

VMT President Honored Before Excursions Start

State Program Takes Effect Next Year

Rockbridge County schools are looking forward to the arrival of school-based health centers in Rockbridge County High and Maury River Middle schools through the Rockbridge Area Health Center.

Abuse Survivor Comes Home To Spread Message

In the quiet Diamond Hill neighborhood, the charred remains of the oncecharming Sheridan House have stood as a persistent eyesore since a fire gutted the building in February of 2016.

Developers Give Update To Council

Rockbridge Regional Tourism Board is offering a sponsorship opportunity for local tourism events in Lexington, Buena Vista and Rockbridge County.

The Interstate 81 Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet on Monday, Oct. 2, at 1 p.m. in the mezzanine of the Virginia Horse Center.

For no obvious reason, Washington and Lee University in the mid-20th century produced a number of graduates who became Hollywood screenwriters, and Anne Drake McClung tells their story — focusing on one who went to work for Walt Disney — in the newest online “Rockbridge Epilogue.”

Michelle Moore Trout is seeking another term as the clerk of court for Rockbridge County and the city of Lexington.

Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, the first and former chief of Space Operations in the newest military service, the United States Space Force (USSF), will be the guest speaker at a dinner hosted by the Scott Van Cleef Chapter of the Air and Space Forces Association (AFA) and the VMI Arnold Air Society John P. Jumper Squadron.

Retired Army National Guard Col. Paul Kastner has joined Virginia Military Institute as the new director of emergency management, following the retirement of the former director, James L. “Jay” Williams Jr.

CITY OF LEXINGTON NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The New Market battlefield may soon become the home to a Confederate monument currently located in the Arlington National Cemetery.

‘A Symbol Of Resilience’

The Lexington School Board is facing controversy over a book recently pulled from Lylburn Downing Middle School’s library.