Editor’s note: The following story was submitted by Gabriel Pent with the McCormick Farm/Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Raphine.
Twenty months into the pandemic, we are heading into our second Thanksgiving in which COVID-19 is still very much a presence in our lives. We are bracing for yet another surge in new cases but remain hopeful that serious illness, hospitalizations and death rates will be much lower as more and more people get vaccinated. We can be confident, and thankful, that we are making progress against the pandemic.
The summons was stuck in my storm door one evening when I got home from work. Jury duty. I reported to the third floor of the court house several Wednesdays ago as directed. I was seated in the circuit courtroom along with about 25 other potential jurors.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 1499, has a proud history in Rockbridge County of serving those who have served us over the past 94 years. Members have included veterans of World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam and more recent military engagements in such places as Iraq and Afghanistan.
