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The box was inspired by family memories of putting letters to Santa in similar mailboxes in years past.
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One big guy, Boss, is chowing down on pumpkins, but with a difference. He has company for breakfast.
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The Star City Strong Man Competition saw people testing their ability.
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There was a robot scrimmage, which was at the center of a larger series of displays.
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Out near the Virginia Horse Center, there is a new figure on a monolith that appeared last April Fools Day.
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The Rockbridge Fair is back after last year’s COVID cancellation and a wary eye on recent surges.
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They join the park’s older tiger, Lilly, although the tigers don’t share the area at the same time.
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Sampson the dog found himself trapped between rocks in a stream at the bottom of a steep slope.
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They ride maneuvers and patterns that replicate what you might see herding out West.
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The drive-in has always leased the land it's on from a local family, even when it was a commercial operation in the 50s.
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The crowds are back, although it’s not that they ever went anywhere.
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Devils Backbone has always done short runs for their tap rooms, but this is the first time they’ve built up an area entirely dedicated to trying out new ideas.
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It’s an effort to get to those people who haven’t gotten their vaccine, not so much out of fear or refusal, but convenience.
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It was the very first time they passed out diplomas outside, on the football field. But for one recipient, it was a long time coming.
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Balloons Over Rockbridge will once again have their tethered hot air balloon rides and balloon flights on July second and third.
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They plan to have the clinic every Tuesday through Thursday throughout the summer.
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Though you may see more of them, the population of bears is actually pretty steady.
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The Central Shenandoah Health District is shifting to a more focused strategy for vaccinating people against the coronavirus.
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As they approach graduation this weekend VMI saw another change as the first female commander of the corps of cadets took over.
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Wright Way Motors offered up its lot and showroom as a venue with enough social distancing.
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In addition to the traditional drive-thru, the park now has close-up encounters with rhinos, sloths and penguins.
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The Food and Drug Administration and C.D.C. are studying whether to expand eligibility for vaccines to younger recipients.
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The VMI Board of Visitors voted to remove the name of Confederate General “Stonewall” Jackson from Jackson Memorial Hall and the arch that is the main entrance to the Old Barracks.
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First Classman Bradey Biller says he was on duty last week when a cadet brought a $100 bill into the guard room.
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The park has been certified as an International Dark Sky Park, which means that the absence of city lights nearby makes it easier for visitors to see stars and other nighttime phenomenon.
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Washington and Lee University students walked out of classes to demand the school change its name.
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The Rockbridge Area NAACP, 50 Ways Rockbridge, and the Central Shenandoah Health District are working together to help anyone who asks to get registered on the state site.
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Rockbridge County leased an empty retail store just outside Lexington to give them a bigger, open location they could leave set up, as more vaccines come into the Central Shenandoah Health District, allowing them to run larger clinics.
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The one-hundred page report from Barnes & Thornburg law firm said interviews with current and former cadets revealed that racial slurs were “a common experience” in both the past and present, and described delays in the work caused by VMI.
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Places like the Sugar Tree Country Store in McDowell are hanging out the “Open” flag and getting ready to serve not only syrup, but food.
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It’s off with the old, and in with the new, with an update for the conference center, an area that hasn’t seen change since the '80s.
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With a bang, they began blasting to set the foundation for the new VMI aquatic center that will be on Main Street, next to their other athletic facilities.
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One issue being taken up in Richmond is that of law enforcement pay. Delegate Ronnie Campbell is offering a bill to increase the annual pay and raises for sheriff's deputies across the state using money from Richmond.
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CARES funding from the state was used to install UV lights at entrances, and up on the roof, new ionizers and higher quality air filters in every HVAC in every school in the system.
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The staff at White's Travel Center made a little Christmas magic to produce a pile of presents for a family that almost had none.
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David Green teaches engineering at the University of Virginia. But just a few generations before, his ancestor lived here: a slave.
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Chad Austin disappeared almost a year and a half ago, abandoning his car and dog near Panther Falls next to the Blue Ridge Parkway.
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“Terror in Woods Creek” was produced locally by Buena Vista filmmaker Tracy Staton, who also wrote and directed the film.
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“She was a fighter,” said Washington & Lee Univ. Law School Prof. Johanna Bond of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bade Ginsburg. "I mean that’s one of the lasting impressions I have of her.”
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Ruger fell off a bluff near the Blue Ridge Parkway, so far that his owners had to call in help from the Glasgow and Buena Vista Fire Departments.
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Over 30 years, Leroy Watts has collected more than 4,500 salt and pepper shakers.
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The council decided earlier this month to change the name of the property where Stonewall Jackson is buried.
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Speaking at a Zoom conference, camp operators explained that they operate almost entirely in the summer, meaning the shutdown also shut down all of their income.
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At the Virginia Horse Center, the Lexington National Horse Show is underway with some modifications.
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On Tuesdays the West Virginia State Fair will be opening up the free parking area across the street from the fairgrounds for a return of the fair's flea market.
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Students, professors and some alumni have petitioned for one or both men’s names to be removed because of their support of slavery.
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Remote learning isn’t an option at the Virginia Military Institute, so while parades may not look exactly like they usually do, all 1,500 cadets will be in the barracks by the end of August.