Arts & Entertainment

Deborah Potter McCormick, 463-7652

With help this year from local artist Mark Cline, W&L students last Saturday work on artwork for the floats for Friday’s Mock Convention parade. The parade starts at 9 a.m.

Registration is open for Virginia Military Institute’s 34th annual Environment Virginia Symposium, to be held April 9-11 in Marshall Hall.

In his poem, “My Heart’s in the Highlands,” Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote, “Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands forever I love.”

The February meeting of the Sounder Community Circle will take place one week later than usual: Monday, Feb. 19, 7:30-8:30 p.m. in the Grace Episcopal Church parish hall in Lexington.

Washington and Lee University’s Evans Hall was packed with people sampling a wide variety of delicious soups at the annual Souper Bowl this past Sunday. AT RIGHT, CHEFS catering served up a warm and comforting steak and ale chowder. BELOW LEFT, Pure Eats provided two different vegetable soup options – one with meat and one without. BELOW RIGHT, Phi Kappa Psi fraternity dished out a hot and steamy Mexican style soup. BOTTOM LEFT, W&L Dining Services cooked up four soups for the day, including potato leek, butternut squash bisque, roasted red pepper with crab bisque and pozole. BOTTOM RIGHT, the group Meatpuzzle provided music for the afternoon crowd. All proceeds go towards the W&L’s Campus Kitchen Backpack Program, a partnership between CKWL and local schools. (Joann Ware photos)

Volunteers Needed For Program

If you’re a strummer, a fiddler, a singer, or even a hummer looking for a song, there’s a group of similar souls ready to welcome you at Maury River Senior Services.

Super Bowl Party, Valentine’s Dinner At Life Chapel

Carolyn Bradley, 258-2720

Our region is entering a time of year ideal for improving our pastures by frost-seeding clover. This is a long-established practice but after 2023’s very dry late summer and fall, many of our pastures have been grazed very closely and could use some help recovering in 2024. February is the ideal time to broadcast clover seed and realize an improvement in pasture yield and quality.

Community and Family Resilience

The hours for the February book sale at Rockbridge Regional Library in Lexington will be Thursday, Feb. 1, 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Friday, Feb. 2, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and Saturday, Feb. 3, from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

A new community theater group in Glasgow is looking for actors for its first production.

Thursday, Feb. 1

Mollie Jean Messimer, 71, an environmental educator who helped launch the Boxerwood Gardens education program and the Rockbridge Conservation communitywide cleanup, died Thursday, Jan. 25, in Lewisburg, W.Va., where she had lived in recent years.

Charlie Upshaw of Raleigh, N.C., a member of the Lexington High School class of 1970, took a copy of his News-Gazette with him when he visited England last July. This photo was taken at Hampton Court Palace, in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames.

Rockbridge Regional Library in Lexington will host Leslie Chappell McLane, FBI fraud prevention community outreach specialist, on Tuesday, Feb. 6, at 2 p.m., for an educational program titled “Spot that Scam! A Discussion about Online and Phone Scams Targeting Older Adults.”

One of those enslaved at Buffalo Forge as an iron maker will be the focus of a program and exhibit organized by the Rockbridge Regional Library Local History Center.

Hull’s Donates To Christmas Baskets Program

The following students were named to the honor roll for second nine weeks at Rockbridge Christian Academy for the 20232024 school year: First grade