I have satellite television service and a standard television antenna that receives locally broadcast channels and their “subchannels.” Last Friday I was surfing those broadcast channels and came to local station WWCW’s subchannel 24.1, the “Grit” channel. Its main fare is western movies and television, beginning in the 1930s and running through the 1970s. It happened to be “John Wayne Friday.”
Nationally prominent journalists and political strategists will be speaking at the upcoming Washington and Lee University Mock Democratic Presidential Nominating Convention, to be held on campus next Thursday through Sunday, Feb. 13- 16.
The Buena Vista Lions Club is seeking public input in the process to name its 67th annual Citizen of the Year award, which will be announced on March 17.
Gene Corrigan, well known in the national college sports world as a former commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference and president of the NCAA, got his start in college athletics at Washington and Lee University. Corrigan, 91, died in Charlottesville Jan.
Rockbridge area residents are being requested to provide input on what they would like to see at Jordans Point Park. Now that the dam has been removed and the Maury River is flowing past the point unimpeded, Lexington city planners want local citizens to participate in a process to formulate a collective vision for the future of the point.
