50 Years Ago
Aug. 27, 1975
The County Super Market on South Main Street in Lexington changed hands. Robert Mears leased the store from Emory C. Straub and Harry P. Straub Jr. and planned to operate it under the name the County Sureway Super Market.
- According to registrars in Lexington and Rockbridge County, only a tiny percentage of voters whose names had been purged from the voting list bothered to re-register. As a result of the purge, 189 names in Lexington and about 850 in Rockbridge were removed by the state from the voter list. - Lexington children attending school on the first day of classes numbered less than those appearing on the first day the year before. Rockbridge County Schools, however, saw a slight increase in their first-day figures.
20 Years Ago
Aug. 31, 2005
Although construction was far from finished at Mountain View and Effinger elementary schools, children did attend classes after a slight delay. Many teachers worked through the weekend to prepare their classrooms for the news school year. - For the second straight week, opponents of Mead-Westvaco’s planned distribution center in Buena Vista packed a public meeting to state their objections. - Almost every one of the nearly 200 people who responded to a community survey conducted by Lexington’s Department of Planning and Development said they loved the city, valuing its small town friendless, sense of community, history, culture and low crime rate.
