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For Clark
For Clark
Oct. 2, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: Vote Michele Clark for Rockbridge County treasurer! 10/04/2023 12:00 AM
Institutional Memory Source Lost
Institutional Memory Source Lost
Sept. 27, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: If you have been involved with a large, old organization, whether a business or nonprofit organization, you know how important it is to know what has preceded you. Who made what commitments to whom? How much did we agree to pay? When did we agree to build it? 10/04/2023 12:00 AM
For Smith
For Smith
Oct. 2, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: Voters looking to improve Rockbridge County’s board of supervisors have a clear choice this fall: Mack Smith, farmer, businessman, and public servant to represent the Buffalo District. 10/04/2023 12:00 AM
Mr. Paxton ‘Led The Way To Save Our Past’
Mr. Paxton ‘Led The Way To Save Our Past’
Sept. 27, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: Our community has suffered as big a civic loss as any can imagine when Matthew White Paxton Jr. died Saturday at Kendal. He was 96, and spent his entire professional life as owner, editor and publisher of The News-Gazette (and of the Rockbridge County News before the 1962 merger with the Gazette). 10/04/2023 12:00 AM
Library Book ‘Absolutely Inappropriate’
Library Book ‘Absolutely Inappropriate’
Sept. 28, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette I am a flaming liberal and against book sequestering. However we can support children’s sexual identity without stooping to vulgarity. The book in question, “Kiss Number 8,” offered to youngsters at Lylburn Downing Middle School, inflames the lowest common denominator and appears absolutely inappropriate as a learning resource. 10/04/2023 12:00 AM
For Ojure
For Ojure
Oct. 2, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: As a retired classroom teacher, I believe that school boards function best when people with teaching experience serve on them. Lenna Ojure not only has that experience (at the elementary, middle and high school levels), she also earned a PhD in curriculum and instruction at Virginia Tech. With that expertise, she advanced to teaching at the college level at both VMI and at W&L, where she directed the Teacher Education Program for 11 years. 10/04/2023 12:00 AM
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

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