Rockbridge area businesses and organizations are participating in a large toy drive to provide Christmas presents to less fortunate families and children in the Shenandoah and Rockbridge county areas.
Three-year-old Slate Singleton does not let his size – or his age - keep him from helping to get the snow off of his family’s vehicle Monday. The Rockbridge area received a dusting to about an inch of snow on Monday morning, the first of the season. For more photos from the snowfall, visit The News-Gazette’s Facebook page.
Lt. Col. Julie Phillips Brown, associate professor of English and fine arts at Virginia Military Institute, will be featured on public radio’s “With Good Reason” Dec. 12-18, in an episode titled “Writing Through.”
Christmas Baskets organizers worked with a small group of volunteers to pack 584 toy bags at warehouse space provided by Charles W. Barger & Sons this past Saturday, allowing volunteers more time and space to work on food box packing at the Virginia Horse Center starting this coming Saturday. (Kelly Nye photo)
The Rockbridge Area Community Services Prevention Unit once again worked with area schools to celebrate Red Ribbon Week in October - despite the pandemic.
This holiday-decorated house on Barger Drive in Lexington caught the eye of local photographer Gail Macleod, who submitted this photo for The News-Gazette’s “Cool Yule Yards” feature. If your house is all decked out for the holidays, you can post a photo of it – and the address – on our Facebook page to enter it into the contest. If you don’t “do” Facebook, send us an email with the address so that we can add it to our holiday lights “driving tour.”
The Christmas at the Park event scheduled to be held at the Paxton house in Glen Maury Park on Saturday, Dec. 12, will now be a drive-thru event, beginning at 5 p.m.
