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    FFA Fundraiser At Farmers Coop Through March 15
    The Rockbridge County FFA chapter and the Rockbridge Farmer’s Cooperative are partnering to raise money for local, state and national FFA. During .....

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    · Maundy Thursday Service Planned at Manly Memorial Baptist Church

    · Connell To Speak At Genealogy Society Meeting On Ancestry.com


    Habitat, Zollmans Dedicate New Home
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    Gen. Zinni To Speak At Marshall Foundation On March 23
    Retired Marine Corps Gen. Anthony Zinni will talk about leadership and his book Leading the Charge: Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boa.....

    · Senate of Virginia Passes Legislation To Change Charter School Application Process

    · New W&L Accounting Courses Teach International Standards


    Rockbridge Weekly Community Calendar
    The Rockbridge Weekly now posts a regular community calendar of events in this place. If you are a non-profit and would like to submit an item for th.....

    · Youth Livestock Program Organizational Meeting March 14th

    · Applications Available for 4-H Camp Counselors

    · Benefit Cake Walk Set For 4-H Livestock Buyers' Committee

    · Diabetes Support Group To Meet March 18th

    · Benefit Cakewalk For 4-H Livestock Buyers Committee Mar. 20


    Read Across America At Effinger
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    New Touring Production Of Porgy And Bess At Lenfest March 22-23
    The Lenfest Center, Concert Guild and the Class of ’64 join together to present the 75th anniversary tour of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess on M.....

    · Building Trades Program at RCHS Receives $10,000 Lowe’s Grant

    · Daisy The Pig To Visit The Library March 11th

    · Life Line Screening Set For Rockbridge YMCA March 31


    W&L Chemistry Professor Marcia France to Give Inaugural Lecture
    Marcia France, professor of chemistry at Washington and Lee University, will give the Herwick Professor of Chemistry Inaugural Lecture on Wednesday, M.....

    · VMI 5K Torch Run for Special Olympics

    · Letter: Closing Schools, Cutting Programs Jeopardizes Strides Made In Local Education

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  • 4. Would closing Effinger Elementary and Rockbridge Middle Schools make sense to you?
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    Mountain Photographer Shows Changes Over 50 Years in Mt. Everest Region


    Vet Students Help With Clinic At SVU


    Middlebrook Resident Earns National Conservation Award


    Center Party Candidate Vanke To Oppose Congressman Goodlatte


    Legal Ethics Expert Stephen Pepper Lectures on Lawyers’ Ethics at W&L


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    Local IN-DEPTH Newsbeat


    Consultant To BV Council: Build Water Filtration Plant
    Hunter A. Young, an engineer with the consulting firm of Civil Consulting Group, P. C. of Troutville minced no words at the Thursday, March 4, 2010 Bu.....

    · Lexington Council Actions

    · TCO And ARB Both Consider Signage

    · Lexington School Board Approves $5.45 Million Budget

    · Supervisors Object To Foresman Relative Compensation

    · County Negotiations With RRR Move Forward


    Task Force For Full Funding Of Schools Gets Moving
    Following the Rockbridge County School Budget Public Hearing on Monday, March 1st, RCHS Science Teacher Bill Jones challenged citizens to form a task .....


    Tink Deacon's New Book Debuts At Effinger Auction
    79-year old W. R. "Tink" Deacon was beaming with pride as he sold copies of his just published book "Poems and Other Writings From the Short Hill Area.....


    Effinger Auction Brings In $15,000
    The annual Effinger PTA Auction took place on Saturday, March 6th with a lot of folks coming out to enjoy the spring weather and to see what items wen.....


    General Peay Speaks To Model UN
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    RCHS Art Students On Exhibit At Nelson Gallery
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    Demolition Makes Room For CornerStone Bank
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    Local Boy Scouts Conduct Friends of Scouting Breakfast And Celebrate Accomplishments
    Local Boy Scouts and their leaders of the Southern District of the Stonewall Jackson Council of the Boy Scouts of America are celebrating two importan.....


    The Rockbridge Ballet Presents a 25th Anniversary Alumnae Concert
    When Jessica Pyatt Martin, Artistic Director of the Rockbridge Ballet, began to plan the Ballet’s 25th anniversary concert, she wanted to represent .....

    · Lexington Council Reviews Work Plan


    BV Hearing: Teachers, Aides Criticize Administration Over ‘Communication’
    Superintendent of Buena Vista Schools Dr. Rebecca Gates gave her annual budget presentation to a packed Parry McCluer Middle School audience last Thur.....

    · Broadband Authority Tackling Second Round Grant Application

    · VT Exension Responds To Proposed Funding Cuts


    Emotional Pleas, Suggestions And Determination At Public Hearing
    Close to capacity, an audience of about 725 people filled the Rockbridge County High School auditorium on Monday evening, March 1st to let the County .....

    · More Public Hearing Photos

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    Opinion

    · Nitwit Logic Can Get The State Into Trouble

    · In The Background,  A Push For Public Unionism

    · Conspiracy Against Kids?

    · Paradise Lost

    · Another Federal Taxpayer Nightmare

    · Another $10 Billion Down The Drain

    · A Standing Opportunity

    · Please Don’t Hand Me The 'Free' Stuff

    · A Bit Of Dreaming

    · Illiterate, Sick, And Unsafe?

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