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How We Can Help RARA Help Others
How We Can Help RARA Help Others
As we pointed out in last week’s editorial about the start of this year’s United Way campaign, there are a lot of neighbors in our community who need the help that United Way agencies provide. 10/04/2023 12:00 AM
Fall’s Delights
Fall’s Delights
Americans refer to autumn as fall because of the falling of the leaves. Riding to work on U.S. 60 West, I can see the subtle transform ation begin as the green leaves on the trees change into their fall finery. 10/04/2023 12:00 AM
Out Of The Past
Out Of The Past
10/04/2023 12:00 AM
Concerned About Today’s ‘Would-Be Autocrats’
Concerned About Today’s ‘Would-Be Autocrats’
Sept. 21, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: What Hitler and his minority party admired about the U.S. of his time was referred to as “the U.S. model”: voter suppression, gerrymandering, immigration restriction of non-Aryans, mixedrace marriages outlawed, propaganda as education. It was hate wrapped in the flag. 09/27/2023 12:00 AM
‘Pack’ City School Board Meeting About Book
‘Pack’ City School Board Meeting About Book
Sept. 25, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: The city of Lexington and Rockbridge County citizens … call to action! 09/27/2023 12:00 AM
LDMS ‘Has Begun Banning Books’
LDMS ‘Has Begun Banning Books’
Sept. 20, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: The LDMS administration has begun banning books from its middle school library, starting with the novel “Kiss Number 8,” because a parent made the vile accusation that the school is “grooming” children. 09/27/2023 12:00 AM
Support Our Local Farmers
Support Our Local Farmers
Sept. 22, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: We are blessed in Rockbridge County with many medium- and small-scale farms that produce a wide range of nutritious food – beef, lamb, pork, chicken, turkey, rabbit, and a large assortment of vegetables and herbs. 09/27/2023 12:00 AM
New Column In Newspaper Appreciated
New Column In Newspaper Appreciated
Sept. 25, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: I am writing to thank you for the second “For Your Consideration” column in this past Wednesday’s paper. 09/27/2023 12:00 AM
TIMELY TOPICS
TIMELY TOPICS
09/27/2023 12:00 AM
Thoughts On 2nd Amendment, Climate Change, Hunter Biden
Thoughts On 2nd Amendment, Climate Change, Hunter Biden
Sept. 22, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: A Republican candidate for the Virginia’s legislature has sent out fliers announcing that he supports the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Supreme Court decisions have guaranteed a very permissive view of the right to keep and bear arms, so that campaign plank doesn’t require much courage. Meanwhile, in Washington, Republicans in Congress are seeking for evidence that Hunter Biden discusses his legal troubles with his father. 09/27/2023 12:00 AM
2,169 Times
2,169 Times
“The public, you know, thinks that a man on a newspaper is valued because he knows what to write, but the truth is, he holds his job because he ordinarily knows what not to write.” - Isaac Erwin Avery, city editor, Charlotte Observer (19001904) Simple recording of history as it happens, with a minimum of hyperbolic or vitriolic opinion and spin control, occurs less and less these days. What a renegade figure skater ate for breakfast has become front page news, relegating the reporting of the public record to the inside pages of the newspaper and the latter half of the network news broadcast. We seem to have become absorbed and fascinated by tragedy, intrigue and soap opera behavior, as though another misfortune might somehow elevate us from the oft-times humdrum rhythms of our individual lives. 09/27/2023 12:00 AM
United Way Donations Make A Difference
United Way Donations Make A Difference
As it does at the beginning of each autumn, the United Way of Rockbridge, Lexington and Buena Vista has launched its annual fundraising campaign, a campaign that has become ever more crucial in the lives of many of our neighbors. 09/27/2023 12:00 AM
Out Of The Past
Out Of The Past
09/27/2023 12:00 AM
In Support Of Ojure
In Support Of Ojure
Sept. 15, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: Please vote for Lenna Ojure for the Buffalo District School Board position. She has taught at all levels of education during her 47 years here in Rockbridge County, including teaching teachers. She is currently training and guiding volunteers for the Rockbridge Regional Library’s Youth Literacy Program. 09/20/2023 12:00 AM
Cline Thanked For Support Of Vehicle Bill
Cline Thanked For Support Of Vehicle Bill
Sept. 18, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: A big thanks to Ben Cline for voting for the Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act. 09/20/2023 12:00 AM
Debt ‘Makes Us Poorer As A County’
Debt ‘Makes Us Poorer As A County’
Sept. 18, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: Earlier this year, the county’s municipal finance consultant advised the Board of Supervisors that since our county has done a good job paying down its debt that we should “capture the decline” in debt payments so we could go into more debt. 09/20/2023 12:00 AM
Pregnancy Centers Can ‘Pose Severe Health Risk’
Pregnancy Centers Can ‘Pose Severe Health Risk’
Sept. 11, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe. Vs. Wade, 22 states have enacted restrictive or prohibitive antiabortion legislation. 09/20/2023 12:00 AM
Did America Deserve This?
Did America Deserve This?
“To anyone that thinks the protests are ‘extreme’ or ‘not the answer’, this is America getting off LIGHT. The country deserves far worse considering all the lives destroyed and stolen in the past decade, let alone the past 400 years. Wake Up” — Jade Harris, Democrat Senate candidate in a Facebook post during the riots in 2020 that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. 09/20/2023 12:00 AM
Out Of The Past
Out Of The Past
50 Years Ago 09/20/2023 12:00 AM
Promoting Outdoor Recreation In BV
Promoting Outdoor Recreation In BV
As summer gives way to fall this week, Glen Maury Park in Buena Vista continues to be a happening place. The refurbished and expanded campground is filling up to capacity with recreational vehicles driven by folks who are here for the 21st Nothin’ Fancy Music Festival being held Thursday, Friday and Saturday. With additional camp sites now in place, the park is likely to have the most campers it has ever had this weekend. 09/20/2023 12:00 AM
Arlington Confederate Memorial Should Be Left Alone
Arlington Confederate Memorial Should Be Left Alone
Sept. 6, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: In quiet grove of trees lie in repose those who gave their “the last full measure of devotion” for a cause which today many find repugnant. 09/13/2023 12:00 AM

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