By Emma Deihle R.E. Lee Memorial Church’s refugee resettlement working group will host a meeting with church leaders and members of the community Oct. 8, to discuss how local congregations can aid in refugee resettlement efforts. The Harrisonburg chapter of Church World Service, a global immigration and refugee resettlement program, intends to partner with local churches as soon as they can determine the scope of their involvement.
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By Lindsay Cates The bright yellow laundry bags that line the halls of the first-year-student dorms at Washington and Lee University are a familiar sight to students. Every week the bags are picked up by University Cleaners and then dropped off a few days later with clean clothes inside. Jay Melvin, the local businessman behind this operation, has two businesses that cater to the student population in Lexington. Melvin and his wife, Trudy, own Melvin Corp., an umbrella company with 22 employees that includes both University Cleaners and a business that rents mini-fridges to students at several area universities. Mni-fridge installation…
Residents of Rockbridge County should be careful on the roads the next couple of days. The area is under a flood watch from Friday morning through Saturday evening. Two to five inches of rain are expected in the next two days. This isn’t the first time floods have threatened this week. On Tuesday, heavy rains also flooded small creeks and streams. Parts of the county even experienced road closures or partial blocking. On Washington and Lee University’s campus, students were unable to cross over the bridge to the rear entrance of the Woods Creek apartments because the river completely covered…
By Polina Noskova Starting next week, Rockbridge County residents will no longer have to sort the tin, aluminum and plastic that they recycle. A new recycling strategy was approved Monday at the Rockbridge Board of Supervisors meeting along with four other parts of a new waste management plan. Under that plan: Recycled glass will now be held at the Rockbridge County landfill, located on the Buena Vista city line, and reused as landfill utility road base. Recycled scrap metal will be stockpiled at the landfill before it is taken away. A new compactor will be purchased and installed to use…
The local Drug Task Force swept through Rockbridge County on Wednesday, searching for many of the 56 people named in a recently unsealed series of indictments. Police officers included Washington and Lee University’s campus in that sweep, where they searched for one or two students from among that group of 56 suspects. Tracy Smith, clerk at the Rockbridge County Circuit Court, said there a total of 164 drug indictments involved. She said Thursday afternoon her office is processing the indictments.
The Mundet-Hermetite factory in Buena Vista closed last week. As the 18th largest employer in BV, it left many community members out of a job.
Devil’s Backbone plans to purchase a 20,000-square foot building to expand its business. The popular local brewery hopes to use the new property as a shipping.
A first-year VMI cadet died on Monday afternoon during a standard training run. The state medical examiner has yet to determine a cause of death.
Brew Ridge Taps, located in downtown Lexington, officially opened its doors on Monday. Co-owned by a local couple, the new brewery will offer 18 different beers, 10 of which are brewed in Virginia.
CSJ Hospital suffered from Internet connectivity issues on Tuesday afternoon. Full connection was restored by Wednesday afternoon.