Wed, 07/01/2020 - 12:00am
The history of the mill at Kerrs Creek and the story of Mason Dunlap, businessman and pre-Civil-War community patriarch, are told in the one of the latest “Rockbridge Epilogues,” written by the woman...
DON HASFURTHER (foreground) and Skip Ravenhorst, co-chairs of HLF’s ad hoc cemetery committee, survey gravestones in Evergreen Cemetery. (Arthur Bartenstein photo)
Wed, 07/01/2020 - 12:00am
As reported previously in The News-Gazette, Historic Lexington Foundation will shortly begin repair and resetting of gravestones in Lexington’s two historic cemeteries.
Work will begin at the...
Wed, 07/01/2020 - 12:00am
The Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association held its Appalachian Mountain Championships last week at the Virginia Horse Center. Cowboys and cowgirls rode horses while aiming and shooting their 45 caliber...
Wed, 07/01/2020 - 12:00am
ABOVE, The Lexington Golf & Country Club and The Vista Links Golf Course hosted a junior golf camp for 16 youths age 7-13 last Monday through Thursday. Running the camp were (kneeling, far left)...
THE GRAND PRIZE WINNER in the Juneteenth Art Exhibition was this painting by Izzy Pfaff entitled “Breathe.” (Eric Wilson photo)
Wed, 07/01/2020 - 12:00am
The Rockbridge area celebrated Juneteenth this year with an art show sponsored by Project Horizon that concluded with a celebration on Juneteenth, June 19, when awards were given out.
Fifty artists,...
News
07/03/2020 - 8:08pm
Early this morning, the Lexington City Council made a unanimous decision to rename the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery. The vote occurred as the July 2 Thursday meeting spilled into Friday morning.
Starting at 8 p.m., the meeting lasted 5...
Sports
07/01/2020 - 12:00am
The Virginia High School League Executive Committee opted on Thursday in a special session to postpone its decision on determining when, or if, a fall sports season will begin this year.
With Virginia moving from Phase II to Phase III in the...
Arts & Entertainment
07/01/2020 - 12:00am
Editor’s note: The following story was written by Lindsey Nair for Washington and Lee University.
Lesley Wheeler, Henry S. Fox Professor of English at Washington and Lee University and poetry editor for Shenandoah magazine, has published her first...
Obituaries
07/01/2020 - 12:00am
Enid Marguerite White Holmes, 99, a world traveler and proud matriarch, died peacefully at Kendal of Lexington on June 26, 2020.
She was born in Brookline, Mass., on April 7, 1921, the daughter of Charles Albert White and Clara E. Mersereau White....
What do you think?
What do you look forward to most after all the COVID-19 restrictions are lifted?
Going to a restaurant and having a nice meal
18%
Being able to hug people again
23%
Seeing items in abundance on the shelves in the grocery store
10%
Attending church
18%
Not having to wear a mask in public
22%
Other
9%
Total votes: 286