The old Virginia Department of Transportation Lexington Residency site will soon be owned by the city of Lexington. City Council unanimously approved a resolution to accept a deed of conveyance for the property from VDOT to the city at its regular meeting last Thursday.
Lexington City Council held a work session last week to hear presentations from two potential Spotswood site housing developers. City staff called the two-hour meeting, in which questions from the public were posed to the developers, “very productive.”
Residents of Savernake and other nearby neighborhoods in the vicinity of Enderly Heights Elementary School say that are supportive of efforts to acknowledge and spruce up Evergreen Cemetery – the long-neglected final resting place for paupers and African Americans that dates to Buena Vista’s founding in the 1890s.
The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles is once again offering walk-in service six days a week at its customer service centers, including the one in Stonewall Square Shopping Center, as of last week.
A member of Rep. Ben Cline’s staff will hold mobile office hours at the Rockbridge County administration building, at 150 S. Main St., Lexington, Thursday, March 17, from 9 to 10:30 a.m.
Rockbridge County and Buena Vista City have moved from areas of high transmission to medium transmission under the Centers for Disease Control new COVID-19 guidelines.
Last October, the Rockbridge County Sheriff’s Office worked with the New York Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Strike Force to seize 50 kilograms of cocaine – approximately 110 pounds – from a tractor-trailer stopped in Raphine. The large load of cocaine was headed towards New York City and carried a street value of at least $1.25 million.