50 Years Ago
Sept. 3, 1975
Buena Vista Police Chief Erskin Campbell said the crowd at the Labor Day celebration in Glen Maury Park “was the biggest we’ve ever seen.” The city sheriff, Jim Burch, estimated that 16,000 people were in attendance.
- The city of Lexington was awarded an AAA pedestrian safety citation by Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. at a luncheon in Richmond. - Herman Roane’s recipe for a tuna roll won first place in a contest sponsored by Ladies Home Journal. His recipe for Christmas candy took second.
20 Years Ago
Sept. 7, 2005
Twenty-five members of the local unit of the Virginia National Guard left Rockbridge County to take part in Operation Gulf Relief in Mississippi in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. - Lexington City Council pledged financial support for the construction of an all-weather swimming pool following a similar action taken in August by the Rockbridge County Board of Supervisors. - Capt. Lowell T. Miller, a 1993 graduate of Virginia Military Institute, was killed in action in Iraq. He is the seventh VMI alumnus to die in combat in Iraq.
