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Distance Runners, Throwers Begin Indoor Season

Blues Improve To 2-2 Entering District Play

With eight wrestlers earning medals by placing in the top six, the Rockbridge County High School wrestling team placed sixth of 22 teams at the Titan Toughman tournament on Friday and Saturday at Hidden Valley High School in Roanoke.

Three PM Grapplers Go Undefeated

Wildcats Still Looking For First Win

Pfaff Sets Duke Mark

Rockbridge Ballet Presents ‘Night Before Christmas’

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

Karyn Gardner, (540) 228-2176, (540) 655-3646 [email protected]

Wednesday, Dec. 13

The holiday edition of the North Rockbridge Trail brought out a large number of people to the businesses in the northern part of the county Saturday. Among the scenes were Margo Carpenter and Erin George preparing bundles of fat 8ths fabric squares that were given to the customers at The Quiltery in Fairfield (left), Karen C. Wright-Sheridan shopping at The Quiltery (middle row, left), a customer checking out items at Wade’s Mill (middle row, right), 3 Seasons Antiques (bottom row, left) and a dog at Wade’s Mill. (Stephanie Mikels Blevins photos)

Residents gathered at Kendal on Dec. 5 for the annual Light Up A Life ceremony sponsored by ConnectionsPlus Healthcare + Hospice. Those attending were given a rose and an ornament in memory of a loved one, with the ornaments placed on a tree. Burr Datz (above), spiritual and patient care volunteer, read the names of those being remembered, and Tasha Walsh (below, right), executive director, welcomed those attending and read a poem. The Threshold Singers (right) sang “Walking Each Other Home.” (Stephanie Mikels Blevins photos)

The public was invited to spend Christmas with the Jacksons last Tuesday, Dec. 5. TOP LEFT, Todd Taylor shows visitors how coffee was made in Jackson’s time. TOP RIGHT, Brian Duckworth enlists the aid of a visitor to churn butter in the Jackson House kitchen. BOTTOM LEFT, Debbie Levonick leads a group in singing “Silent Night” in the Jackson House parlor. AT IMMEDIATE LEFT, Tamara Teaff demonstrates how a knitted garter would have been used to hold up a lady’s stocking. (Joann Ware photos)

Santa, along with a bunch of his friends, met with children at Kling Elementary School last Thursday during the annual Horses’ Christmas celebration. The 2023 edition of the event was presented by Half-Halt Inc. Equine Assisted Therapies and Programs in Buena Vista and sponsored by the Buena Vista Parks and Recreation Department. This year marked the return of the event after a hiatus of three years caused by the pandemic and weather. (Stephanie Mikels Blevins photos)

The pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and first grade classes at Central Elementary School performed a sweet program to a full gymnasium last Thursday. The title of the program was “Christmas Cookies, the Musical” and it was about cookies that are going to a cookie exchange. Along the way, the cookies discover that it is OK to be with others who are not just like you. (Joann Ware photos)

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Crossing paths on Dec. 6, the feast day honoring Saint Nicholas, are Scott Belliveau, who annually portrays the fourth century Bishop of Myra, and Father Jay Biber, a former pastor at St. Patrick Catholic Church, now retired in Lexington. St. Nick, honored for his works of kindness and charity, can be spotted each year on his special day, waving as cars pass the church on Nelson Street and offering candy canes, prayer cards, and well wishes to all he meets.

The Choir of Grace and Friends will present a service of Lessons and Carols for Advent on Sunday, Dec. 17, at 5 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church.

Hillel President Gabby Cogan (right) lights a Hanukkah menorah candle as Lily Bishop, religious life chair, looks on at the Hillel House at Washington and Lee University last Thursday evening on the first night of the seven-day Jewish holiday. (Claudia Schwab photo)

A traditional service of the Lexington Presbyterian Church, the Christmas Festival of Lessons and Carols, will be held during the 11 a.m. worship service on Sunday, Dec. 17. This will be the church’s only worship service that day.

Thursday, Dec. 14