Out Of The Past

50 Years Ago

April 4, 1973

Area grocery shoppers were boycotting meat in response to high meat prices. Stores began cutting down on supplies of meat in response to the boycotts.

--- Virginia Military Institute’s New Market ceremony would continue unaltered despite proposals to change certain aspects of the annual commemoration. Some cadets, including Blacks, voiced objections to the use of Confederate symbols and the playing of “Dixie.”

--- The state was moving ahead on plans to purchase three tracts of land for its Goshen Pass master plan.

20 Years Ago

April 9, 2003

Local residents continued to protest the war in Iraq during weekly vigils in front of the Rockbridge County Courthouse. The vigil was one of the efforts to emerge from the group Rockbridge Response to War on Iraq. .

--- Rockbridge County Supervisors and Lexington City Council members voted 8-1 to develop a fourth alternative courthouse site plan, which included renovating the old courthouse and the old jail and demolishing the First National Bank building to construct a new building.

--- Lexington residents were looking at a proposed 3-cent real estate tax increase and a 4 percent increase in utility rates should the $16.1 million budget pass.