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State Motion, Though, Could Delay Trial

The Buena Vista General District Courtroom, which also serves as City Council’s chambers, is to undergo remodeling in the next couple of months.

Focus Now On Maximum Occupancy

New Policy Would Allow School Flags

Work On Innovation Center On Schedule

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.

February, as it has been since 1964, is American Heart Month, a time when the American Heart Association and other organizations put the spotlight on heart disease, still the No. 1 killer of Americans.

The Generals Redoubt, an organization of Washington and Lee University graduates, has been at the forefront of creating a national Alumni’s Free Speech Alliance to help unite a growing number of alumni associations across t he c ountry. T he Generals Redoubt along with the Jefferson Council at the University of Virginia, Princetonians at Princeton University, Free Speech Alliance at Cornell University, and a Davidson College alumni organization started the national organization.

Feb. 2, 2024 Editor, The News-Gazette: As a (former) career pilot, it’s difficult to compose all of the reasons not to have another airport incorporated into the global air traffic control system. Pilots want taxpayers to build more airports, while the FAA secretly wants less airports.

Feb. 4, 2024 Editor, The News-Gazette: I read most of the article in the N-G about the supervisors meeting in which the proposed airport was discussed. But I had lost the first part of the story, so I don’t know who is proposing the idea or why. Based on what I read, the only supervisor who asked the right question was Bob Day: “Why build an airport for private planes?”

Feb. 2, 2024 Editor, The News-Gazette: Heads up unaffiliated voters! Legislation (VA HB56) has been proposed in the Virginia House of Delegates that will disenfranchise unaffiliated voters.

Jan. 29, 2024 Editor, The News-Gazette: I write opposing development of an airport in Rockbridge County. I grant that the cost would be perhaps 2% to the county. However, where does the other 98% originate? Taxpayers ‒ you and me also! These dollars could be better used for educational, drug rehab and prevention, and other humanitarian activities.

Feb. 5, 2024 Editor, The News-Gazette: It’s good news to hear that the city is interested in creating adog park! And (as most of us have heard before) “if you’re going to do something, do it right.” The first and most influential step in creating a dog park is choosing its location.

Ronald Edward Wells, 81, of Raphine passed away Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024.

Frances Mallory Meyers, 81, of Novelty, Ohio, passed away in her home on Feb. 1, 2024, after a seven-year battle with cancer.

Vincent “Casey” Schmoll died on Feb. 4, 2024, at his home in Balleroy-sur-Drome, Normandy, France.

Leonard Guy Tomlin, 90, of Buena Vista, passed away peacefully at his home on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024.

Florinda Ruiz passed away surrounded by family on Jan. 31, 2024, at noon. Flor lived her life with a joy and energy that was contagious.

Charles Franklin “Peanut” Camden Jr., 81, of Lexington died Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, at his home.

Blanche S. Ferguson, 89, died Jan. 26, 2024, in Salem.