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Steve Bolster, former director of fiscal services for Rockbridge County, has taken a job as a regional planner for the Central Shenandoah Planning District Commission.

Great news: thanks to the new prescription drug law, the Inflation Reduction Act, in 2024 people with Medicare may qualify for even more savings through the Extra Help program. This program helps some people pay their Medicare drug coverage (Part D) costs, like premiums, deductibles, coinsurance, and other costs. In 2024, the program will expand and you may qualify.

Buena Vista City Public Schools in May announced Peggie Poluikis as the division’s Teacher of the Year.

City of Buena Vista Planning Commission Public Hearing July 11th 2023

An Amherst man was killed in a motorcycle accident on the Blue Ridge Parkway Saturday.

LFD Celebrates Arrival Of New Tower Truck

Local Resident Had Worked At Buffalo Creek Boys School

Lexington’s efforts to repair or upgrade the city’s sewer system to limit inflow and infiltration into the system has moved to the next phase: relining sewer pipes in the Providence Hill area.

GiveSolar Installs Panels On Two More Homes

7-Eleven Planned For Timber Ridge

July 1 has come and gone, we’re in a new fiscal year and Virginia still doesn’t have a budget. Sure, the state does technically have a biennial budget approved by the General Assembly in 2022 that remains in effect, but what to do with billions in surplus funds has yet to be decided.

TCO Service Recognized

“Agriculture is Virginia’s number one industry” is a statement often repeated when we speak of agriculture’s importance to the region and the truth of this statement is derived from economic measures of farm output and value-added products produced in Virginia. By these conventional economic measures, agriculture’s preeminence in Virginia’s economy appears to be largely derived from the value-added poultry and pork products and the employment these food industries bring to the communities where they are located.

City of Buena Vista Planning Commission Public Hearing July 11th 2023

The July meeting for the board of the Rockbridge Area Recreation Organization July has been cancelled.

Hikers Tell Their Stories At Glasgow Hiker Dinners

North Fork Lumber in Goshen is among the recipients of more than $93 million in grant money from the United States Forest Service. The company plans to use funds for expanding production capacity of the mill.

Transfer Completes Decade-long Effort

EHV-1 Detected In Two Horses During Show

Installation Expected By This Fall