THIS “FIRST BIRTHDAY GREETING” card was given to infant Leroy Miller on Feb. 27, 1923, by the Cradle Roll superintendent for the Sunday school at Broad Creek A.R. Presbyterian Church.
Wed, 08/05/2020 - 12:00am
This profile continues the Rockbridge Historical Society’s summer-long series of articles commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, and is complemented by pop-up exhibits in...
Wed, 08/05/2020 - 12:00am
While the Maury River Senior Center has been closed to the public since the start of the pandemic, staff members and volunteers have still been hard at work. AT LEFT, staff member and well-known...
PATIENTS of the Rockbridge Area Health Center have been given the option of tele-health since the early days of the pandemic. Here nurse practitioner Laura Simpson is communicating with a patient through a smart phone.
Wed, 08/05/2020 - 12:00am
“Adjust, pivot, adapt.”
Suzanne Sheridan, chief executive officer of the Rockbridge Area Health Center, has continually referred back to this threeword mantra with each new challenge she and her...
VIRGINIA MOURNING HER DEAD was created by sculptor Moses Ezekiel to honor the VMI cadets killed in the Battle of New Market, six of whom are buried behind the statue. The sculpture was dedicated in 1903. (Darryl Woodson photo)
Wed, 08/05/2020 - 12:00am
Virginia Military Institute is planning multiple measures to combat racism but removal of statues and renaming buildings are not among the steps being contemplated.
“The principles on which VMI has...
Wed, 08/05/2020 - 12:00am
Parry McCluer High School football players participate in on-field conditioning at the school’s practice field last Wednesday evening. The field was divided into four sections to allow social...
News
08/11/2020 - 8:12pm
The Rockbridge County School Board approved major changes tonight to the division reopening plan.
Instruction for county students will now begin Tuesday, Sept. 8, under a digital attendance model. Students grades 2 through 12 will learn 100 percent...
Sports
McDANIEL
08/05/2020 - 12:00am
After a heartbreaking conclusion to her playing career, Krista McDaniel did not give up on the sport of softball.
McDaniel, a 2017 Rockbridge County High School graduate and a rising senior at Division II school Davis & Elkins College in West...
Arts & Entertainment
08/05/2020 - 12:00am
Karyn Gardner, (540) 228-2176, (540) 655-3646 karyn.gardner1985@gmail.com
Services at St. John’s Episcopal Church are on hold at this time in the interest of the health and safety of its parishioners. The church vestry is monitoring local COVID-19...
Obituaries
08/11/2020 - 4:00pm
DOROTHY WILSON
Dorothy Jane Wilson, 75, of Lexington passed away Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, at her home.
She was born May 20, 1945, in Cape Charles, a daughter of John R. Terry and Jessie L. Terry.
In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death...
