The Rockbridge County School Board approved major changes tonight to the division reopening plan.
Instruction for county students will now begin Tuesday, Sept. 8, under a digital attendance model. Students grades 2 through 12 will learn 100 percent virtually for the first nine weeks.
In last week’s Lifestyle section story about the country store exhibit at the Brownsburg Museum, one of the photos was of an unidentified girl standing in front of a general store.
Rockbridge Area Transportation System is celebrating 25 years with its first Mystery Tour virtual fundraiser. Participants in the fundraiser will look for clues online to solve a mystery. The mystery is a real, unique event in the history of RATS.
Rockbridge Regional Library’s Books and Brews Book Club will discuss Amy Belding Brown’s historical novel, “Flight of the Sparrow: A Novel of Early America,” online on Tuesday, Aug. 11, at 3:30 p.m.
Michael L. Kreul, 30, of Lexington, died following a motor vehicle accident involving a tractor-trailer on Interstate 81 in Botetourt County Wednesday, July 29.
Two Rockbridge County residents who are volleyball teammates at Emory & Henry College, Keely Doyle and Marigrace Grow, earned Old Dominion Athletic Conference All-Academic Team honors for the 2019-20 school year. Emory & Henry announced these honors on Friday.
Although all eyes have been on Hurricane Isaias, it was fast-moving storms from a stalled weather front that brought several inches of rain to parts of the Rockbridge area on Monday. The hurricane itself did not affect this area. In Buena Vista, a number of yards were flooded Monday, including that of Kim Spence Hinkle (at left), and the railroad culvert was filled with water when Cristi Carroll took the photo above. Other photos from Monday’s rain can be found on The News-Gazette’s Facebook page.
The Rockbridge area’s first coronavirus-related death — coming out of Buena Vista — was confirmed and recorded by the Virginia Department of Health yesterday.
