Two of the three Glasgow Town Council members-elect were sworn in by the Rockbridge clerk of the circuit court, Michelle Trout, at the December Council meeting. They were Natalie Harris and Marcie Hill. The third councilman-elect, Brandall Branch, would be sworn in at the courthouse at a later date. The new members of the Council will be ready to assume their duties on Jan. 1.
At its Dec. 15 meeting, the Lexington City Council heard a request from the Virginia Horse Center to extend the extra 1 percent of the discretionary lodging tax that the city and Rockbridge County have agreed to give the horse center to help pay off debts.
6 p.m. Friday - Both BARC and Dominion are reporting scattered power outages in the Rockbridge area at the end of a extremely windy and bitterly cold day.
Jade Harris was the choice of 24th District Democrats who gathered at the Lexington Democratic Party headquarters Tuesday to nominate a candidate for the House of Delegates special election