Wed, 12/06/2023 - 11:09am
11:30 a.m. Thursday - According to the owners of the Natural Bridge Zoo and a posting from the Virginia Animal Alliance, a number of animals were confiscated by the state yesterday and last night....
PM SENIOR guard Evan Cook dribbles the ball while closely guarded by an Altavista player. Cook dished out four assists. (Ronnie Coffey photo)
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 12:00am
The Parry McCluer High School boys basketball team started the season with a trio of nondistrict games, splitting a pair of home games before falling 67-58 at Wilson Memorial on Saturday. The...
EUGENE WILLIAMS, VMI class of ’74, and Capt. Chad Joyce address cadets in the “Risk and Resilience in Youth” class. (VMI photo by Andrew Partridge)
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 12:00am
A new psychology class at Virginia Military Institute is offering cadets a new angle on the issue of at-risk students and ways of addressing it.
Lt. Col. Sara Whipple, associate professor of...
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 12:00am
High above the ground, workers on Monday begin repairs on the roof of Randolph Street United Methodist Church, which was damaged in a severe windstorm last July. Pastor Reginald Early said that...
Wed, 12/06/2023 - 12:00am
The Christmas parade season got underway over the weekend in the Rockbridge area. Because of the way the calendar fell this year, it was Lexington, not Buena Vista as usual, that hosted the first...
News
12/06/2023 - 11:09am
11:30 a.m. Thursday - According to the owners of the Natural Bridge Zoo and a posting from the Virginia Animal Alliance, a number of animals were confiscated by the state yesterday and last night.
Also, the 12-year-old tiger Zeus, was ethanized,...
Sports
12/09/2023 - 9:32pm
Saturday, Dec. 9 -- The Rockbridge County and Parry McCluer high school girls basketball teams both suffered defeats on the second day of the Fighting Blues' Jaden Baker Tournament in Buena Vista.
Northside knocked off the Wildcats 54-29, while...
Arts & Entertainment
THE ROCKBRIDGE Bird Club will lead a walk at Boxerwood this Saturday morning to spot winter birds such as this Hermit Thrush. (photo courtesy of Dick Rowe)
12/06/2023 - 12:00am
Rockbridge Bird Club invites area residents to join them for this month’s Second Saturday morning walk at Boxerwood on Dec. 9 at 8:30 a.m.
Boxerwood walks are an excellent introduction for those new to birding, said a spokesperson. At this time of...
Obituaries
12/08/2023 - 12:45pm
Sarah Rose Cumming, 33, a 2008 graduate of Rockbridge County High, died Dec. 6, 2023, of an astrocytoma brain tumor, the last of a series of cancers she had survived since age 14.
A singer-songwriter and journalist, Cumming refused to be defined...
