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VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY BETTY S. TROVATO, PETITIONER IN RE: TREASURER OF THE COUNTY OF ROCKBRIDGE, VIRGINIA

Virginia Military Institute will host the 46th Military School Band & Choir Festival, Friday, Feb. 16, through Sunday, Feb. 18.

Additional tutoring for elementary and middle school students, set out through Gov. Glenn Younkin’s All In Plan, has begun in area schools.

Tryouts for the Black History play “Back to the Past” that had been scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 10, have been rescheduled until after the schools’ basketball season.

Delegates Select Stefanik As VP Nominee

Those who followed the news coverage of last week’s Supreme Court hearing of the case regarding Colorado removing former President Donald Trump from the ballot for the upcoming elections may have noticed a reference to a particular case in the plantiff’s arguments that has its origins in Rockbridge County.

A Lexington man has been indicted on murder charges in connection with the death last March of a Rockbridge County Woman Leland David Johnson, 44, was indicted by a Rockbridge County Grand Jury last Monday, Feb. 5. He was indicted on three felony charges: one count of first degree murder, one count of second degree murder and one count of use of a firearm in commission of a felony.

A divided Rockbridge County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 Monday to deny a special exception permit for a special events venue requested for a farm near Fairfield.

Attorneys for both the state and Natural Bridge Zoo are preparing for a trial, scheduled for Feb. 26, which will rule on the zoo owners Karl and Debbie Mogensen’s appeal of the General District Court’s ruling last month.

A proposed FY25 budget for Lexington City Schools, presented at the Feb. 6 School Board meeting, would raise salaries for teachers and staff.

Last week, we watched the spectacle of one political party abruptly reversing their position on the combined Border-Israel-Ukraine bill, after saying for months that that was what they wanted.

Last week, a friend contacted me a nd told me that his h ome t ow n community newspaper in Iowa had announced that they were closing. His message said, “I felt like my old friend just died. Very hard to take. I thought to myself ‘now there is nobody who will record the goings-on in this town anymore.’” This is being repeated in towns and cities all across America.

Carolyn Terrell, (540) 6493828/[email protected]

Karyn Gardner, (540) 228-2176, (540) 655-3646 [email protected] Wishing everyone a very happy Valentine’s Day! Tell your loved ones how much they mean to you.

Carolyn Bradley, 258-2720

Esther Pennington, 291-2629

Feb. 9, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: I have to agree with the letter from Kathleen and Gordon Ball, questioning the need for a taxpayer-funded airport in Rockbridge. I realize that many current citizens of Rockbridge weren’t here 30 years ago when this proposal was last brought up. The issue was hotly debated and most citizens came to the conclusion that although the airport would be almost entirely paid for and maintained with their tax dollars, there would be little to no benefits for those citizens not owning an airplane. The proposal was voted down by Rockbridge citizens 75 percent to 25 percent.

Deborah Potter McCormick, 463-7652

Feb. 5, 2024 Editor, The News-Gazette: A frog agrees to carry a scorpion across a river, the scorpion assuring him he won’t sting because they would both drown. Being a scorpion, he stings the frog, drowning them both.

Feb. 10, 2024 Editor, The News-Gazette: The cartoon of Trump “goose stepping” across the cover of The New Yorker magazine was a scary wake up call to the direction Trump and his MAGAts (short for MAGA cult) have been heading. Perhaps many of the MAGAts are too young to understand the horrors of World War II and why we fought. My Dad nearly lost his life from wounds he acquired on the front in France. By the time he recovered, the Allies were halfway across Germany.