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City Responds To Park Concerns
City Responds To Park Concerns
Editor’s note: After we received Phillip Welsh’s letter on Jordans Point Park, we reached out to Lexington City Manager Jim Halasz and received the following response. 03/15/2023 12:00 AM
Work At Jordans Point Park Results In ‘Destruction’
Work At Jordans Point Park Results In ‘Destruction’
March 12, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: I hope all citizens of Lexington, or citizens from anywhere for that matter, who appreciated the beauty and simplicity of Jordans Point Park, will go take a walk around it now to view the destruction and environmental degradation wrought by the public works department. What the department’s intention was is indecipherable, and I don’t know who is ultimately responsible, but I have spoken with several people familiar with the situation and this is what I have learned: Apparently, a few weeks ago, public works was hot to make “improvements” at the park. The city arborist, Celia Raney, provided them with a work plan which included a surgical removal of only invasive species and “widow maker” limbs, and a prohibition on the cutting of any trees more than 4 inches in diameter. Public works chose to do the work while Ms. Raney was indisposed and out of town, and they completely ignored her work plan. They cut down numerous large, native trees. They clear-cut and dozed off the steep bank beside the boat ramp, and completely destroyed and leveled a thousand square feet of perfectly healthy, well-vegetated riparian buffer down in the flood plain, ostensibly to put in a picnic table. 03/15/2023 12:00 AM
Thoughts On War In Ukraine
Thoughts On War In Ukraine
March 13, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: First, a little history. Early last year, both houses of Congress controlled by the Democratic Party marching in lockstep behind a Democratic president, earmarked $40 billion to help Ukraine push back Russian soldiers still living under a collectivist dictatorship crafted by the Bolshevik-Soviets about a hundred years ago. 03/15/2023 12:00 AM
DR. MARTY DeREUS
DR. MARTY DeREUS
Dr. Michael Lee “Marty” DeReus, longtime resident of Buena Vista, passed from this life on March 1, 2023. 03/15/2023 12:00 AM
PAT RAMSEY JR.
PAT RAMSEY JR.
Pat Edward Ramsey Jr., 80, of Amherst passed peacefully on March 11, 2023. 03/15/2023 12:00 AM
ALICE PAINTER
ALICE PAINTER
Alice Mae Lynn Painter, 87, of Buena Vista entered Heaven to be with her Lord and Savior Wednesday, March 8, 2023. She passed peacefully at her home while surrounded by her children and grandchildren. 03/15/2023 12:00 AM
HAROLD EDWARDS
HAROLD EDWARDS
Harold Frederick Edwards, 92, passed away at his residence on March 8, 2023. 03/15/2023 12:00 AM
BOB GARRISON
BOB GARRISON
George Robert “Bob” Garrison, 77, passed away Saturday, March 11, 2023, at his home in Buena Vista with his family at his side. 03/15/2023 12:00 AM
SVU Alum Leading PM Girls Tennis
SVU Alum Leading PM Girls Tennis
The Parry McCluer High School girls tennis team’s new coach is taking on her first head coaching job, but she has plenty of experience on the tennis court. 03/15/2023 12:00 AM
Hot Pursuit 5K Returns
Hot Pursuit 5K Returns
After a three-year hiatus, the Hot Pursuit 5K will return on Saturday, April 15, for its third year. The 5-kilometer running/ walking race, which will take place at the Virginia Horse Center, will raise funds for the Lexington Police Foundation and the Lexington Mounted Unit. 03/15/2023 12:00 AM
Laubscher To Receive National Sports Award
Laubscher To Receive National Sports Award
The College Sports Communicators (CSC) recently announced that Brian Laubscher, director of internal communications at Washington and Lee University, will receive the CSC Lifetime Achievement Award at the organization’s annual convention in Orlando this June. 03/15/2023 12:00 AM
National College Boxing Tourney At VMI
National College Boxing Tourney At VMI
The 2023 United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association (USIBA) National Tournament will be held in Cocke Hall at Virginia Military Institute on Thursday, March 23, through Saturday, March 25. 03/15/2023 12:00 AM
Claytor District Player Of Year
Claytor District Player Of Year
Parry McCluer High School senior post player was named Pioneer District girls basketball player of the year last week. She is one six PM girls who were awarded all-district honors. 03/15/2023 12:00 AM
COLLEGE ROUNDUP
COLLEGE ROUNDUP
Luth Fifth In NCAA Wrestling 03/15/2023 12:00 AM
Tuesday's RC Boys Tennis Match Postponed
Tuesday's RC Boys Tennis Match Postponed
03/13/2023 04:47 PM
Tuesday’s RC-PM Baseball Game Postponed
Tuesday’s RC-PM Baseball Game Postponed
03/13/2023 02:40 PM
Monday’s RC Girls Lacrosse Game Postponed, Boys Travel To Salem
Monday’s RC Girls Lacrosse Game Postponed, Boys Travel To Salem
03/13/2023 11:59 AM
Hot Pursuit 5K Supports Lexington Police And Mounted Unit
Hot Pursuit 5K Supports Lexington Police And Mounted Unit
03/12/2023 11:43 AM
Alice Mae Lynn Painter, 87, of Buena Vista died Wednesday, March 8, 2023.
Alice Mae Lynn Painter, 87, of Buena Vista died Wednesday, March 8, 2023.
03/10/2023 11:05 AM
Robert Wayne Cash, 70, of Glasgow died March 8
Robert Wayne Cash, 70, of Glasgow died March 8
03/10/2023 10:12 AM
Harold Edwards, 92, died March 8
Harold Edwards, 92, died March 8
03/09/2023 09:32 AM

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