Lylburn Downing Middle School will lease its roof to a solar company to install panels and will be able to buy electricity at a reduced rate.
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Rockbridge Area Recreation Organization’s youth sports teams have had limited space to practice this year. Plans to build new practice fields are in the work with support from several sources, including the City of Lexington and Washington and Lee University.
Work release and electronic home monitoring programs are valuable opportunities for qualified inmates at Rockbridge Regional Jail, which allow them to save money for life after release.
Modular units enabled construction to proceed quickly for the 17 buildings, which will house several hundred juniors.
Dog-related crimes have risen in Rockbridge County in the past month. Local officials are trying to inform the public about animal control ordinances.
Rockbridge Area Transportation System is poised to branch out to younger people in the area, not just the elderly and disabled. It has already started hosting group events.
City Council has given Main Street Lexington a grant to help the area’s small businesses afford signs and awnings, in hopes the refurbished storefronts attract customers.
Students gathered to create a banner and show support of W&L’s LGBTQ community after slurs were spray painted on The Sustainability House and several cars in Davidson Park.
In 2013, President Ken Ruscio established a panel to look at African-American history at W&L. It is now focusing on John Robinson, who donated slaves, money, and land.
The runoff from this season’s snow and rain has made the fields at Central Elementary next to unusable, forcing its PE teachers to improvise ways to keep kids active indoors.