The County Council of Garden Clubs' annual plant sale returned to Hopkins Green in Lexington Saturday morning, after having been canceled last year due to the pandemic.
May 5 - The severe thunderstorms that rolled through the Rockbridge area Tuesday afternoon downed trees, temporarily closed some roads and produced power outages.
The former Kennametal factory building in Rockbridge County – more recently a warehouse for Modine Manufacturing – is to become a manufacturing facility once again.
As night fell Saturday after the first full day of battling the latest forest fire in Rockbridge County, the man in charge of the operations was looking ahead to Monday’s forecasted rain.
Dr. Tony Francis of Bedford County Public Schools will be the next superintendent of Buena Vista City Public Schools. Francis will succeed Dr. John Keeler, who is set to begin his retirement at the end of June.
The Virginia Military Institute’s board of visitors voted Saturday to remove Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s name from three landmarks on campus.
This Saturday, May 8, just in time for Mother’s Day, the B&Bs, farm stores, antiques, fabric shop, vineyards and brewery, museum, operating grist mill and restaurants in northern Rockbridge County invite everyone to drive the back roads of Rockbridge and discover the more than 25 small businesses open during the North Rockbridge Trail’s Mom’s Love Language Trail.
Lindsey Pérez, the current programs manager for the Rockbridge Area Relief Association (RARA), has been named as the executive director for RARA starting June 1. She will succeed Jen Handy, who is moving to Chapel Hill, N.C., with her family.
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