ERIC WHEELER cheers on Taylor Walle and her husband, Matthew Loar, as they do squats during Wheeler’s E’s Fitness Bootcamp on Monday of last week at the youth center in Buena Vista. This was Wheeler’s last indoor fitness class held before Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s order for only outdoor classes to take place, starting last Wednesday. (Jonathan Schwab photo)
Wed, 04/01/2020 - 12:00am
With gyms closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, local fitness instructors have gone online to continue to lead their members in group fitness classes.
After Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s order to...
Wed, 04/01/2020 - 12:00am
A firefighter sprays down the area consumed by a brush fire along Brownsburg Turnpike late Monday afternoon, one of two brush fires in the county that day. Both were caused by trees that fell across...
VOLUNTEERS at the Rockbridge Area Relief Association’s food pantry on Spotswood Drive in Lexington sort items late last week. The organization began offering drive-thru service last week, and has seen demand more than double since the coronavirus outbreak began taking its toll on the local economy. (photo courtesy of RARA)
Wed, 04/01/2020 - 12:00am
With many Rockbridge area residents thrown out of work or working reduced hours due to the coronavirus crisis, local food pantries are seeing greatly increased need.
At the Rockbridge Area Relief...
Wed, 04/01/2020 - 12:00am
Area youth gathered to “Nurture Environmental Stewardship Together (NEST)” in the first-ever middle school environmental youth summit, sponsored by Boxerwood Nature Center in partnership with two...
PERSONAL protection equipment and other surplus medical supplies were gathered by Carilion for its hospitals at a donation site at the Washington and Lee pavilion last week. (Harrison Mines photo)
Wed, 04/01/2020 - 12:00am
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is in high demand as local health care workers are feeling a strain on their resources amid the COVID-19 health emergency.
With the threat of the virus on the rise...
News
04/06/2020 - 11:52am
All Interstate 81 southbound lanes between exits 213 and 205 are scheduled to be closed from about 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on the morning of Tuesday, April 7, for Virginia State Police to investigate a recent crash in southern Augusta County.
I-81...
Sports
04/01/2020 - 12:00am
After last Monday’s order by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to close all K-12 schools for the rest of the school year, Virginia High School League officials held a teleconference call the next morning to discuss the possibility of letting spring teams...
Arts & Entertainment
04/01/2020 - 12:00am
The churches of the Collierstown community continue to heed the state and federal government mandates during the COVID-19 outbreak by canceling all worship services and church related activities for the next thirty days. Online worship services and...
Obituaries
04/06/2020 - 3:56pm
Gene Carleton Duff, 81, of Lexington passed away Saturday, April 4, 2020, at Carilion Stonewall Jackson Hospital.
Born Jan. 11, 1939, in Rockbridge County, he was a son of the late William Henry Duff and Carmen Alford Duff.
In addition to his...
