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CITY OF LEXINGTON NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

First Days

Approximately 145 vendors are expected for the 46th annual Rockbridge Community Festival this Saturday.

Lenfest Center Announces Wide-ranging Season

Longtime Director Oversaw Growth Of Department

Shelter Filled To Capacity

He Calls Years Here ‘Best Job’ Of Career

The foundation that funds the latest iteration of The Cadet newspaper is seeking an investigation of what it is characterizing as a campaign of disparagement of the newspaper by Virginia Military Institute’s administration.

Honored By NAACP

Kindergartners Start Their School Careers

For the past few weeks, the water in the Maury River has looked a bit murkier than usual, due to the annual draining of Lake Merriweather to allow dam operator Mike Jolly to clean out debris that has gotten into the lake over the past few years.

An unimaginably horrific tragedy occurred Aug. 4 in the Arnolds Valley area when three siblings – the only children of a Charlottesville couple – drowned in the James River.

Is Lexington the wrong place to build affordable housing? Is there a better plan?

50 Years Ago

Aug. 14, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: We need to stand up for our kids!

Deborah Potter McCormick, 463-7652

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

Aug. 16, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: Announced this month, the EPA refuses to remedy the environmental hazard posed by Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, claiming these animal factories’ waste disposal practices need “more study.”

Aug. 16, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: At the height of a deeply hot summer came August, capped by the heat dome that curtained the South. It drew both Rockbridge residents and people from afar to the waters of the Maury River to frolic in its cool and shade by its shores. Their cars lined the road through Goshen Pass, and the calls of children rang up and down the mountains.

Aug. 20, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: The Capitol Council of the BSA in Bethesda, Md., has been draining Lake Merriweather daily since July 28. The Maury River is polluted with the green, murky sediment flowing from this man-made lake. The recreational enjoyment of the river is impaired; the Maury Service Authority must treat the water differently, which increases cost for private citizens and businesses, and the small life forms of the river are smothered to the determent of the health of the river.

He went to be with his Heavenly Father, Aug. 23, 2022. You are loved and missed so very much each and every day by your loving family. Mom, Amber, David, Chase, Montana, Teresa & Clay, Clay & Sandy and Marty and Robin.