When Doug Crabb started working in the Department of Facilities Management at Virginia Military Institute last June, he not only started a new career path, but he also began a renovation into becoming a new man.
Virginia Military Institute has launched a two-year pilot program called the Summer Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program (SUEP) as a starting point for entrepreneurship education.
Wangdali C. “Wali” Bacdayan, a private investor and entrepreneur, and a current trustee of Washington and Lee University, was sworn in as the university’s 32nd rector on Feb. 10. The board unanimously elected him to this role at its meeting last October.
The search for two young runaways from Buena Vista ended last Wednesday night as Pyper Wilhelm, 16, and Logan Gilbert, 15, were located safely in Knoxville, Tenn.
Accountant Saidee Gibson said Buena Vista gained $5.5 million this past year because it settled The Vista Links golf course debt.
Mountain Gateway Community College will cap off this year’s Black History Month programming with a presentation by Rockbridge Historical Society Executive Director Eric Wilson entitled “Cultivating Education: Lexington’s Black Schools and Churches, 1865-1965,” sponsored by the VMI Office of Diversity, Opportunity and Inclusion.”
Maxwell Fourth At State
PM Junior Places Third In 500, Fourth In 50
Six Individuals, Two Relay Teams Advance To State
Two Rockbridge County High school senior boys basketball players, guard Henry Lambert and center Milo Mulitalo, were named to the all-district teams last week.
Program Explores Life Of Sam Williams
Rockbridge Symphony Returns To Lenfest Saturday
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The Rockbridge County High School photojournalism class is having its annual movie fundraiser at Hull’s Drive-in on March 2. All money raised goes directly to the student-run publication of the RCHS yearbook, The Trivium. The cost is $15 for a car in advance and $20 a car at the gate. This year’s movie is “E.T. the Extra Terrestrial.” The gates open at 5:30 p.m. and the movie starts at 6:30.
Washington and Lee University student Josh Rassin ’24 has been accepted into the Venture for America Fellowship Program, where he will be placed as a full-time salaried employee at a startup company or entrepreneurial support organization following graduation.
On Feb. 2-3, students from Maury River Middle School, Lylburn Downing Middle School and Rockbridge County High School participated and performed with the 2024 All-District Band in Staunton with paid guest clinicians. Participating from MRMS were (from left) Jacob Barney, Maddie David, Brigette Aguilar, Morgan Derr and Dasha Billias.
Karyn Gardner, (540) 228-2176, (540) 655-3646 [email protected]
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