'Happy To Be Home'

Local Guard Unit Returns From Iraq

BY JONATHAN SCHWAB

Families, friends and supporters welcomed buses filled with 96 Virginia National Guard members back from...

Laborfest Turns 40

Ashton Roberts, Troops To Be Honored In Parade

BY ED SMITH

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been 40 years since Buena Vista first took center stage to usher in Virginia’s fall political campaigns. Still going...

Former BV Police Chief Gets New Job

BY ROBERTAANDERSON

Former Buena Vista Police Chief A.J. Panebianco has accepted a position as interim chief in the town of Warsaw in the Northern Neck region.

Panebianco will head up a department of three full- and one part-time officer, including the chief, in a town of 1,375 that counts among its residents 400 inmates of the local prison. The position extends through the end...

Volpe Reaches Plea Deal On Thefts

Former Real Estate Agent Could Serve Up To 11 Months

BY ROBERTAANDERSON

Former Lexington real estate agent and developer S. Charles Volpe last week reached a plea agreement with the commonwealth on nine embezzlement charges pending against him in Rockbridge County Circuit Court.

Volpe, 56, who now resides in Bonita Springs, Fla., was indicted on the charges last February.

According to the terms of the plea...

Only Kling Makes AYP In Buena Vista

Many Schools, Divisions In Va. Don’t Meet Mark

BY KIT HUFFMAN

Kling Elementary School made Adequate Yearly Progress this year.

The school is alone among the four Buena Vista public schools in having passed the increasingly rigorous federal standards for 2010.

The Buena Vista school division as a whole also failed to make AYP.

Only 60 percent of individual schools made AYP this year, and just 9...

Full Text Of Resignation Letter Of Library Foundation President

Pete Minetree of Bath County resigned last month as president of the Foundation of the Rockbridge Regional Library. His letter of resignation, addressed to Joyce Davis, Foundation vice president, and Julie Hammond, Foundation treasurer, was released to The News-Gazette Monday afternoon.
What follows is the complete text of the letter.

Dear Julie and Joyce: It has become increasingly clear that the trustees, through the...