Rockin Hoss & The Silver Spurs, a hometown band, will take the stage at Boxerwood, performing rock and country oldies this Friday, Aug. 13, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
A new diesel mechanic program, which will prepare students to inspect, repair and overhaul buses and trucks, as well as to maintain and repair diesel engines, is being offered by the Dabney S. Lancaster Community College Division of Workforce Solutions and Community Education this fall.
Ed Smith, reporter and assistant editor of The News-Gazette, won a first place award in editorial writing in the National Newspaper Association Foundation’s 2021 Better Newspaper Contest.
Furever Friends has received a grant from the Prince William Humane Society to microchip, for free, local cats who are getting spayed or neutered through a program started by Furever Friends Lodge in Buena Vista called “I Found You.”
The Furever Friends group is hosting a kitten adoption event and bake sale this Saturday, Aug. 14, at 2463 Beech Ave. in Buena Vista (Huffman’s Auction building) from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Rockbridge County timber was used the past two weeks to build a replica of one of the trusses of the Notre Dame Cathedral, to be displayed in the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.