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Virginia National Guard Sgt. Lee Shallenberger (center) was presented a Unit Award, after a long deployment to Africa, during a recent ceremony at the Hines Memorial Armory. Retired Maj. Jimmy Poole (left) has sponsored the award for the past 23 years, an award that is unique to Company B, 1-116th Infantry Battalion and is voted on by the soldiers. First Lt. Eric Abshier (right) was also present at the ceremony.

Events Start This Friday

Cub Scouts Compete In Pinewood Derby

Greer Publishes Article Detailing Project In Belize

Boxerwood recently received a $63,000 planning grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

Cadets Will Receive Direct Commissions

Citizens Share Concerns On Salaries, CRT And IED Issue

Mountain Gateway Community College has announced that the seventh annual Distinguished Alumni Award is currently open for nominations.

Lexington Presbyterian Church will be holding its biennial Festival of Faith on Saturday and Sunday, March 11 and 12, with guest speaker the Rev. Aisha Brooks-Johnson, Executive Presbyter of Greater Atlanta. The theme of the festival is “Faith Now: 21st Century Discipleship” and features a series of events “exploring the nature of faith in the current moment – in our context of social, economic and racial injustice, when the world and many Christian churches are polarized, and as the post-COVID landscape places new challenges before communities of faith.”

St. John’s Episcopal Church in Glasgow observed Shrove Tuesday on Feb. 21 with a chili dinner. The church had observed the day with a pancake dinner, but it was decided a few years back that chili was better. Congregants gathered around the communal table to share four different kinds of chili. The church’s last Shrove Tuesday dinner was pre-pandemic in 2020 when it was joined with a “thank you” dinner for the spring break mission group of students from the College of the Holy Cross. (photo by Dave VanOsten)

An International Harvest and Heritage Day celebration will be observed Sunday, March 5, at First Baptist Church in Lexington.

Spring Sale Replaced With Monthly Events

New Tour Offers Look At Couple’s Relationship

Three of the participants in the “Bond of Family” history program join in singing a song at the Feb. 18 event in Glasgow. The three – all descendants of Garland Thompson Sr., who was enslaved at Buffalo Forge – were the Rev. Brandall Branch, Clarence Martin and Jerry Thompson. (Carolyn Bradley photo)

March 18, 10:30 a.m. – “Edible Mushrooms” with Stephen Kaplan from Kaplan’s Welcome Home Farms, at the RARA Community Room, 350 Spotswood Drive, Lexington.

Karyn Gardner, (540) 228 2176, (540) 655-3646 karyn.gardner1985@gmail. com

Two Henry Brothers Were Successful In Court, Another Sailed To Liberia

During the opening ceremonies of the Lone Star Rodeo Friday night at the Anderson Coliseum of the Virginia Horse Center, an American flag was unfurled in the darkened arena in a salute to the U.S. armed forces. The theme of this year’s rodeo tour was “God and Country.” Several local riders took part in this year’s rodeo, held over two nights at the VHC. For more photos from the rodeo, see page A7. (Joann Ware photo)

A Rockbridge County woman died following a fire at her house Friday afternoon.

Del. Ellen Campbell, having just completed her first session of the General Assembly on Saturday, announced Monday she is a candidate for reelection. Because of redistricting, she will be seeking to represent a newly reconfigured district that includes only a portion of Rockbridge County.

Main Street Buena Vista has a new executive director. Brooke Dalton, who was born and raised in Buena Vista, began her new job in mid-February.