The special committee studying potential name changes at Washington and Lee University completed its work in December but W&L’s board of trustees isn’t ready to act on the committee’s recommendations.
Virginia is making the process easier for people to be notified of positive COVID-19 test results — and anonymously share those results with others who may have been exposed.
If the city of Lexington sells its Spotswood Drive property for a housing development, The Community Table, which has rented the city’s Piovano Building there for years to serve free sit-down meals, would need to relocate.
John Marshall Higgins, 62, the former superintendent of the Rockbridge Regional Jail, and a former member of the Rockbridge County Board of Supervisors, was convicted Sunday on six federal charges related to corruption at the jail and civil rights violations of inmates.
There have been eight more reported COVID-19 deaths in the Rockbridge area in the past week, bringing the total number of deaths to 59, but the rates of new COVID-19 cases and new hospitalizations in the area have started to slow down.
