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The Destination Imagination team from Rockbridge County High School, called Controlled Chaos, competed in the state DI tournament in March and placed third in the Improvisational Challenge, Showdown. Team members were (from left) Malia Fitz, Lezley Slagle, Abby Brooks, Garrett Stillwell and Liam Stillwell, along with coach Ashlee Payne. The team was among several from Rockbridge County schools that began creating solutions to project-based STEAM challenges in the fall and then presented their solutions at the Virginia State Affiliate Destination Imagination Tournament in Mechanicsville.

Lt. Col. Julie Phillips Brown, associate professor in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at Virginia Military Institute, will discuss themes of biology, mythology, and motherhood in her poetry on the public radio program “With Good Reason” April 8 - 14.

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Yearbook orders are due by April 21. To order this year’s copy of the yearbook, produced by the Trivium staff, online, visit yearbookordercenter. com, and use school code 13788. Paper forms to order the yearbook may also be picked up in room 114 at RCHS.

The Gobblelicious 5 Destination Imagination team from Maury River Middle School placed first in the Fine Arts Challenge, Flip the Script, at the state DI tournament last month. Team members included (from left) Emma Johnson, Joshua Hughes, Coach Sarah Schultz, Maddie David, Brigette Aguilar and Dasha Billias.

Maury River Middle School band director Matt Schucker has been dedicated to helping students grow through music for 17 years. In February, he was selected for the Virginia Band and Orchestra Director’s Association District 5 Educator of the Year award.

FY 2024 Proposed Budget, Capital Improvement Plan, Agency Funding Requests Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be conducted by the Lexington City Council on Thursday, April 20, 2023, at 7:00 p.m. during its regular meeting, held in the first floor meeting room of the Rockbridge County Administrative Offices, 150 South Main Street, Lexington, to solicit input on the Proposed FY 2024 budget, the Capital Improvements Plan (CIP) for the period FY 2024-2028, and FY 2024 agency funding requests. City Council will take comments offered at the hearing into account. Citizens are strongly encouraged to submit public comment in writing to the following email address: jhostetter@lexingtonva. gov, by US Mail to City Manager’s Office, 300 East Washington Street, Lexington VA, 24450, or by leaving it in the City’s drop box at the rear of the building (facing the parking lot) and addressed to the City Manager’s Office. Comments will be distributed to City Council and entered into the minutes as public record. Copies of the proposed budget documents under consideration are on the City’s Finance page of the website.

Estimated costs for planned renovations to the Rockbridge County schools’ Innovation (formerly Floyd S. Kay) Center are climbing and could possibly affect the timetable for construction.

Chapel Work Slated For Summer

Contested races are taking shape for at least two of the three Rockbridge area seats in reconfigured districts of the Virginia General Assembly.

Five percent pay raises for city employees and no tax or fee increases are included in a proposed budget for fiscal year 2024 that Buena Vista City Council will consider next month.

The Lexington City Council held its first budget work session of the year last week and will hold additional work sessions tomorrow and next week ahead of a scheduled public hearing on the budget on April 20.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner speaks outside the Maury Service Authority’s pump station at a ceremony Tuesday afternoon unveiling plans for the MSA’s new raw water pump station. Warner spoke of the importance of the pump station for the Rockbridge community and highlighted that it was one of several long-term projects that the MSA is working on to improve access to water for MSA customers. Warner and Sen. Tim Kaine secured a $3 million grant for Rockbridge County to be put toward the cost of the project in the Senate appropriations bill for the 2023-24 fiscal year. The bill was approved by both houses of Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on Dec. 31. (Hope Huger photo)

Recognized For Being A Weather Observer For 55 Years

Winning three events, the Rockbridge County High School outdoor track and field teams had many strong performances in their first meet of the season on March 29 at Broadway.

By Jonathan Schwab

The Parry McCluer High School girls tennis team improved to 2-0 by earning a 6-3 road win over Alleghany on Tuesday of last week.

The Virginia Military Institute boxing club team, called the Regulators, placed third overall in the 2023 United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association National Tournament, which was held in VMI’s Cocke Hall March 23-25.

Virginia “Jince” Niceley McCurdy, 97, died peacefully at home in Altoona, Fla., on Dec. 5, 2022.

Kenneth Frazier Moore, 84, of Lexington died Monday, April 3, 2023, at Shenandoah Valley Health and Rehab in Buena Vista.