50 Years Ago
June 9, 1976
The Bicentennial Wagon Train Pilgrimage made a stop in the area during a gloomy downpour. Well over 40 wagons with about 200 riders and outriders first stopped in the county at Glasgow staying in a field just outside the town. - There was a lot of excitement at the Natural Bridge Speedway as Rick Mast of Rockbridge Baths captured his first win in modified competition. - For the second time in 1976, room rates at Stonewall Jackson Hospital’s Extended Care Facility were going up by $3 with semi-private rooms going for $26-$27 per day and private rooms costing $27.50 to $28 a day.
20 Years Ago
June 14, 2006
Peter Sils’ proposal to develop a courts complex at Courthouse Square on Main Street as an alternative to having a new courthouse built on Randolph Street was still viable after the Board of Supervisors approved guidelines to allow the county to receive such proposals.
- Goshen Mayor J.B. Sprouse alleged that voters who were not residents of the town were allowed to vote in the previous month’s election. Sprouse was defeated in his bid for reelection by challenger Danny Goodbar.
- Graduation ceremonies for the two area high schools were held. Graduating RCHS senior Chelsea Devening wore a bandana wrist ban in honor of Charles Volpe, an RCHS sophomore who drowned at Jordans
Point.
