Bruce Young
Lexington, Va.
Updated: Dec. 24, 2021 at 5:53 PM EST
|By Bruce Young
They held a Beards for Santa contest.
Updated: Dec. 8, 2021 at 6:49 PM EST
|By Bruce Young
It’s a bigger project than you’d expect, rescuing a lost dog.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2021 at 8:49 PM EST
|By Benjamin Beddoes, Bruce Young and Dryden Quigley
Ski resorts across our region are getting ready to open.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2021 at 5:59 PM EST
|By Bruce Young
The box was inspired by family memories of putting letters to Santa in similar mailboxes in years past.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2021 at 5:52 PM EST
|By Bruce Young
One big guy, Boss, is chowing down on pumpkins, but with a difference. He has company for breakfast.
Updated: Nov. 6, 2021 at 9:06 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
The Star City Strong Man Competition saw people testing their ability.
Updated: Nov. 6, 2021 at 8:58 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
There was a robot scrimmage, which was at the center of a larger series of displays.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2021 at 6:16 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
After 25 years, the popular tour is now nationally known.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2021 at 5:55 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
Out near the Virginia Horse Center, there is a new figure on a monolith that appeared last April Fools Day.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2021 at 5:42 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
The first step to making cider is getting the apples.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2021 at 7:13 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
The Rockbridge Fair is back after last year’s COVID cancellation and a wary eye on recent surges.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2021 at 6:11 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
They join the park’s older tiger, Lilly, although the tigers don’t share the area at the same time.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2021 at 6:01 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
Sampson the dog found himself trapped between rocks in a stream at the bottom of a steep slope.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2021 at 5:49 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
They ride maneuvers and patterns that replicate what you might see herding out West.
Updated: Jul. 13, 2021 at 4:28 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
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.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2021 at 5:13 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
The crowds are back, although it’s not that they ever went anywhere.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2021 at 4:37 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
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.
Updated: Jun. 24, 2021 at 5:42 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
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.
Updated: Jun. 7, 2021 at 7:54 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
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.
Updated: Jun. 4, 2021 at 7:26 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
Balloons Over Rockbridge will once again have their tethered hot air balloon rides and balloon flights on July second and third.
Updated: May. 28, 2021 at 4:31 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
They plan to have the clinic every Tuesday through Thursday throughout the summer.
Updated: May. 20, 2021 at 5:11 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
Though you may see more of them, the population of bears is actually pretty steady.
Updated: May. 18, 2021 at 5:46 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
The Central Shenandoah Health District is shifting to a more focused strategy for vaccinating people against the coronavirus.
Updated: May. 14, 2021 at 5:41 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
As they approach graduation this weekend VMI saw another change as the first female commander of the corps of cadets took over.
Updated: May. 13, 2021 at 5:43 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
Wright Way Motors offered up its lot and showroom as a venue with enough social distancing.
Updated: May. 10, 2021 at 6:35 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
In addition to the traditional drive-thru, the park now has close-up encounters with rhinos, sloths and penguins.
Updated: May. 7, 2021 at 5:34 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
The Food and Drug Administration and C.D.C. are studying whether to expand eligibility for vaccines to younger recipients.
Updated: May. 5, 2021 at 7:04 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
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.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2021 at 6:33 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
First Classman Bradey Biller says he was on duty last week when a cadet brought a $100 bill into the guard room.
Updated: Apr. 8, 2021 at 5:36 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
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.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2021 at 6:57 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
Washington and Lee University students walked out of classes to demand the school change its name.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2021 at 4:54 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
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.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2021 at 5:12 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
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.
Updated: Mar. 11, 2021 at 4:44 PM EST
|By Bruce Young
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.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2021 at 8:11 PM EST
|By Bruce Young
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.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2021 at 8:16 PM EST
|By Bruce Young
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.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2021 at 5:20 PM EST
|By Bruce Young
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.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2021 at 7:05 PM EST
|By Bruce Young
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.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2021 at 4:58 PM EST
|By Bruce Young
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.
Updated: Dec. 18, 2020 at 3:50 PM EST
|By Bruce Young
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.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2020 at 10:09 PM EST
|By Bruce Young
David Green teaches engineering at the University of Virginia. But just a few generations before, his ancestor lived here: a slave.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2020 at 5:54 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
Chad Austin disappeared almost a year and a half ago, abandoning his car and dog near Panther Falls next to the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2020 at 5:22 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
“Terror in Woods Creek” was produced locally by Buena Vista filmmaker Tracy Staton, who also wrote and directed the film.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2020 at 8:13 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
“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.”
Updated: Sep. 9, 2020 at 7:37 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
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.
Updated: Sep. 3, 2020 at 6:11 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
Over 30 years, Leroy Watts has collected more than 4,500 salt and pepper shakers.
Updated: Aug. 21, 2020 at 5:42 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
The council decided earlier this month to change the name of the property where Stonewall Jackson is buried.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 5:41 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
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.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 5:26 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
At the Virginia Horse Center, the Lexington National Horse Show is underway with some modifications.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2020 at 6:01 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
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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