The News-Gazette

Wed, 06/20/2018 - 11:28am

Winners in the 25th annual Maury River Fiddlers Convention, held June 14-16 at Glen Maury Park in Buena Vista, are as follows: Bluegrass band – first place, Pleasant View of Amherst; second, Grassifieds; third, Canned Biscuits of Calloway. Old time band – first, Axn Jxn and the Supernatural;...

Tue, 06/19/2018 - 5:30pm

Down To The Dirt

June 19 - Earth-moving equipment levels the stripped down surface of South Randolph Street between Preston and McDowell Monday afternoon, after contractor PavCon Inc. milled to a depth of 8 inches late one night last week and accidentally struck main and lateral gas lines. Public works director...

Fri, 06/15/2018 - 1:19pm

Kendal Incidents Updated

On Wednesday, June 13, 2018, two unrelated incidents occurred at the Kendal at Lexington construction site within City limits. First, at approximately 1:55 p.m., contractors detonated a blast that unexpectedly caused a debris shower, damaging a neighboring property. In the second incident, the City...

Wed, 06/13/2018 - 8:31am

House On Main Comes Down

The “Glass” house just north of the new Virginia Military Institute Corps Training Center on Main Street came down Monday morning, June 11, as VMI completes the landscaping around the training center and gets ready for the start of construction for the aquatics center, which is still probably five...