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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
David Green teaches engineering at the University of Virginia. But just a few generations before, his ancestor lived here: a slave.
Chad Austin disappeared almost a year and a half ago, abandoning his car and dog near Panther Falls next to the Blue Ridge Parkway.
“Terror in Woods Creek” was produced locally by Buena Vista filmmaker Tracy Staton, who also wrote and directed the film.
“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.”
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.
Over 30 years, Leroy Watts has collected more than 4,500 salt and pepper shakers.
The council decided earlier this month to change the name of the property where Stonewall Jackson is buried.
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.
At the Virginia Horse Center, the Lexington National Horse Show is underway with some modifications.
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.
Students, professors and some alumni have petitioned for one or both men’s names to be removed because of their support of slavery.
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.
As Lexington city council met into the early morning, they heard many opinions, some live, many by email, and even petitions, but after four hourse, they voted to change the name of the city-owned Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery.
Like many items in museums, it can be difficult to find the time to give it the detailed study it deserves, until COVID shut down all the public activities.