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Community mourns Simpson’s death

|Date: October 06, 2011

Community mourns Simpson’s death

By Diandra Spicak Washington and Lee University Art History professor Pamela Simpson passed ...

By Diandra Spicak Washington and Lee University Art History professor Pamela Simpson passed away at her home Tuesday evening. Simpson was considered a "trail blazer" by those who knew he ...

October 06, 2011
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Local free health clinic receives federal grant

|Date: October 06, 2011

Local free health clinic receives federal grant

By Billy Crosby The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is giving the Rockbridge Area Free clini ...

By Billy Crosby The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is giving the Rockbridge Area Free clinic an $80,000 planning grant to assess the needs of the county. Suzanne Sheridan, executive dire ...

October 06, 2011
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Jazz icon Stan Kenton to be celebrated in Lexington

|Date: October 06, 2011

Jazz icon Stan Kenton to be celebrated in Lexington

By Sage Um Stan Kenton was a jazz pioneer who took the big-band sound of the 1940s and turned it i ...

By Sage Um Stan Kenton was a jazz pioneer who took the big-band sound of the 1940s and turned it inside out, creating a whole new progressive phase of jazz in the 1950s. His sound was still con ...

October 06, 2011
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Thompson’s Knoll development moves forward

|Date: October 06, 2011

Thompson’s Knoll development moves forward

By Paige Gance Sometimes the most essential individuals in a community – police officers, firefighters an ...

By Paige Gance Sometimes the most essential individuals in a community – police officers, firefighters and teachers - cannot afford to buy a home where they work. That will change with Thompson’s Knol ...

October 06, 2011
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Lexington council resumes water-meter project–with caution

|Date: September 30, 2011

Lexington council resumes water-meter project–with caution

By Chelsea Stevenson Lexington City Council decided Thursday night to resume citywide installation of new ...

By Chelsea Stevenson Lexington City Council decided Thursday night to resume citywide installation of new water meters after flooding in homes brought a halt to the project last week. But installation ...

September 30, 2011
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Candidates worry about area's future

|Date: September 29, 2011

Candidates worry about area's future

By Shannon McGovern With a daughter in high school and 3-year-old twin sons on their way to pre-school, D ...

By Shannon McGovern With a daughter in high school and 3-year-old twin sons on their way to pre-school, David McDaniel says he is motivated in his unopposed campaign for the Natural Bridge seat on the ...

September 29, 2011
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Struttin’ the Strip shows off businesses

|Date: September 29, 2011

Struttin’ the Strip shows off businesses

By Sage Um To get the attention and dollars of local women who usually drive to malls in Charlottesville ...

By Sage Um To get the attention and dollars of local women who usually drive to malls in Charlottesville or Roanoke, downtown Lexington businesses hosted an after-hours shopping spree event for the la ...

September 29, 2011
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Alternative Montessori school opens

|Date: September 29, 2011

Alternative Montessori school opens

By Morgan Holt Catherine Lueptow’s 12 years at Woods Creek Montessori were “lovely,” the former Primary I ...

By Morgan Holt Catherine Lueptow’s 12 years at Woods Creek Montessori were “lovely,” the former Primary I lead teacher says. But this year, schoolhouse politics and conflicting teaching philosophies p ...

September 29, 2011
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Emergency water plan stalls

|Date: September 29, 2011

Emergency water plan stalls

By Diandra Spicak Lexington and Rockbridge County have yet to decide on a plan to supply water in an emer ...

By Diandra Spicak Lexington and Rockbridge County have yet to decide on a plan to supply water in an emergency. This means that city and county residents who get their water from the Maury River could ...

September 29, 2011
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Virginia’s support for death penalty remains strong

|Date: September 29, 2011

Virginia’s support for death penalty remains strong

By Courtney Ridenhour While hundreds gathered outside a prison in Jackson, Ga., to protest the execution ...

By Courtney Ridenhour While hundreds gathered outside a prison in Jackson, Ga., to protest the execution of a convicted man who maintained his innocence, 10 students shuffled through capital case file ...

September 29, 2011
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