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The Christmas concert originally scheduled for Dec. 17 at Buena Vista Baptist Church will be held this coming Sunday, Jan. 14, at 4 p.m.

Deborah Potter McCormick, 463-7652

The Music at Noon concert series at Lexington Presbyterian Church will resume today, Jan. 10, with an organ recital by William McCorkle at noon in the Lexington Presbyterian sanctuary.

The fifth annual community service of Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Glasgow drew its biggest attendance yet, 91 participants and audience members. The service featured a recorder ensemble, brass instrumentalists, and a new volunteer choir. The Rev. Dr. Bob Copenhaver, whose history with St. John’s spans decades, led the service, with Brandall Branch, as he has each time before. Following the service, a barbeque dinner was held in the adjoining parish hall.

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RCHS is hosting a Curriculum Information Night on Thursday, Jan. 11, from 6 to 8 p.m. The event will provide students and guardians with more information about new and existing courses being offered during the 2024-2025 school year.

Carolyn Terrell, (540) 649-3828/ [email protected]

Esther Pennington, 540-291-2629

Rachel Clark, (630)

The Rockbridge Cattlemen’s Association invites cattle producers and their supporters to its annual meeting with dinner and an informative talk on the U.S. and Virginia cattle markets in 2024 and 2025. The program will be held Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 6 p.m. in the Appomattox Mezzanine of the Virginia Horse Center. The cost of the program is $20 per person and includes a supper of beef chili and baked potatoes. Folks wishing to attend should call or text Tom Stanley at (540) 588-0241.

The following local students are also attending college this year: Anna Barrash Wilson at Dickinson College; Ren Price at Bard College; Elaine Price at Dickinson College. Their names were received after The News-Gazette published its annual Off to College list last month.

Local students and the Prevention Unit of Rockbridge Area Community Services took part in the Red Ribbon Week national drug prevention awareness campaign last October.

America has an extremely high bill that is g rowi ng at an exorbitant rate that when it comes fully due will take a high cost in both treasure - and blood!

50 Years Ago

The 2024 session of the Virginia General Assembly convenes today. With divided government in Richmond, we are optimistic that the narrow Democratic majorities in the state Senate and House of Delegates will be able to work cooperatively with their Republican colleagues in each chamber and Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

Two crashes at the Interstate 81 bridge over Sterrett Road in Fairfield early Tuesday afternoon closed both southbound lanes of the interstate and Sterrett Road for hours. The Virginia State Police reported that there were no major injuries from the crashes, but there would have to be an extensive cleanup. No further information on the crashes was available as of press time. (Christopher Hamilton photo)

What was forecasted to be a major winter storm last Saturday turned into not much of anything, except for some freezing rain in some areas of the county, as seen in this photo by Susan Perry in Raphine. A second storm Tuesday, however, brought lots of rain and some reports of light snow.

Split Vote Follows Hearing

Two young Goshen children lost their lives in a house fire in West Virginia on Saturday morning.

A feasibility study for a general aviation airport in Rockbridge County was endorsed Monday by the Board of Supervisors.

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