Editor’s note: Below are two more entries in our “My Story” ongoing series in which area residents are invited to let us know how they’re doing during this pandemic. To submit your story, send it to editor@thenews-gazette.com
‘Tis the season for local governments to formulate budgets for the next fiscal year, and Rockbridge area jurisdictions are feeling the pinch from the pandemic. A precipitous drop in state aid as well as falling sales, meals and lodging tax revenues has localities scrambling to fill in budgetary gaps.
I suppose the question on everyone’s mind these days is when is this all going to end? No one knows the answer to that question and I try not to ponder it too frequently.
Glenn DuBois, the chancellor of Virginia’s Community Colleges, named a new statewide task force Friday to examine and propose changes in how community colleges operate to meet the needs of Virginia students and businesses in a post-pandemic “new normal.”
