By Kinsey Grant It won’t be long before red and green wreaths and twinkling Christmas decorations light up Main Street in downtown Lexington. The garlands and ornaments may stay up for only a few weeks, but merchants have been preparing for the holiday season for months. Trez Sebrell, manager of Ladles & Linens on Main Street, said the holiday season is the busiest time of year for her kitchen shop. She said her store records so many sales on Black Friday and Small Business Saturday – the weekend after Thanksgiving – that they don’t total the numbers until those days…
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By Katie Wildes Student loans are burdening the younger generation of Americans with a mountain of debt. On Oct. 30, the Obama Administration announced a higher education experiment that could increase federal grants to some high schools where students are dual-enrolled in local college classes. Area students may soon benefit from this program. Dabney S. Lancaster Community College (DSLCC) offers a variety of courses to Rockbridge County High School students, including general education courses typically associated with freshman and sophomore college-level courses and introductory courses in the technical and occupational career programs. The students who take these classes at the high school are…
By Mac Trammell Although industry may be creeping away from the one-time factory hotbed of Buena Vista, a competitive national grant may encourage displaced workers to find a job near home. In mid-September, the Shenandoah Valley Workforce Development Board (SVWDB) received a $4-million grant that will create 600 registered apprenticeships from Frederick County in the northern-most tip of Virginia, south to Rockbridge County. That is an almost 300,000-person area. The money comes from the American Apprenticeship Grant, a White House initiative to stimulate affordable access to education and job-training opportunities. There were 46 recipients of the grant and only two…
By Mac Trammell After a 10-0 ODAC season, Mac Trammell talked with Football Coach Scott Abell about the team’s historic success.
By Polina Noskova Wade’s Mill prides itself on more than stone-ground flour. Georgie Young, one of the mill’s co-owners, has taught cooking classes there for almost 25 years and she and her husband are retiring after this holiday season.
By Anna Akins Washington and Lee students gathered outside Lee Chapel for a candlelight vigil to mourn the recent events in Paris. Approximately 50 people came to the vigil.
By Faith Pinho A Washington and Lee law student crashed into an undergraduate driver on Monday night. He has been arrested for driving under the influence, but charges have not yet been filed. So far this year, there have been 27 DUI arrests in Lexington and 37 in the county. Neither driver suffered major injuries from the crash.
By Rachel Stone Washington and Lee students gathered at Lee Chapel last night in a rally to support the protests at the University of Missouri. Black students spoke out about racial tensions they experience on campus.
By Emma Deihle First Baptist Church in Lexington held a second memorial service on Sunday, Nov. 15, commemorating the lives lost in the Charleston, S.C., shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17. Dylann Roof, a man espousing white supremacy and displaying Confederate symbols on his Facebook page, shot and killed nine people in the historically black church. Local pastors and community members have not wavered in their support of the Charleston church and intend to continue to come together.
By Emma Deihle A decision in a 2012 class-action lawsuit required all sheltered workshops across the nation to begin integrating their work environments by employing both disabled and non-disabled people. The Rockbridge Area Occupational Center in Buena Vista provides employment opportunities for disabled adults in the area, but it is currently experiencing record-low employment because of a lack of new vendor agreements. The center cannot make any effort to comply with the mandate or expand its operations until it locks down more sub-contracted work.