Lexington News

In 2008, the Virginia Horse Center Foundation established the Hall of Fame to recognize exceptional service to the Foundation and its mission as well as the equine industry and the Rockbridge County community.

The Rockbridge Retired Teachers Association will meet on Monday, June 18 at the Holiday Inn Express on Route 11 in Lexington.

Cy Twombly spent most of his life outside the high-octane New York art world, working quietly either in his hillside house in Gaeta, south of Rome, or in his home in Lexington, Va.

The Lexington Brass Quintet will hold a special free concert on Saturday, June 2 at 7:30 pm at the R.E. Lee Episcopal Church on W. Washington St.

Members of Stonewall Brigade Camp 1296 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans fire a three gun salute during the Memorial Day observance at the Rockbridge Veterans Memorial in Lexington on Monday, May 28th.

Carilion Stonewall Jackson Hospital is the latest partner to join the vision collaborative initiated by volunteer providers of the Rockbridge Area Free Clinic.

Nelson Gallery is going to the dogs - And proud of it. On Friday, June 1, the 3rd annual Art for Arf SPCA Benefit Show will open with a reception from 4 to 7 at the gallery located at 27 W. Washington Street in Lexington.

Raymond K. Johnson, 85, who served in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam, presents the class ring to his granddaughter, Kayla Johnson, at VMI in Lexington.

Area resident David Walsh writes comments regarding a vision for the Rte. 60 East Lexington corridor on a visual chart during a VDOT hearing on Tuesday, May 22nd in Lexington.

Virginia State Police are investigating a high-speed chase that ended in a wreck this morning in Rockbridge County.

Daniel Lewis 'Pete' McDonald, 64, died Friday, May 25, 2012, at Heritage Hall in Lexington.

Betty May Clements Mayo, 59, died Wednesday, May 23, 2012, at her home. She was born May 11, 1953, in Lexington, a daughter of the late Leonard K. Clements and Ruth Crist Clements.

Joel Ervin Shinofield of Lexington, VA, received the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies degree in social sciences during Hollins University's 170th commencement ceremony on May 20.

White, who is on supervised release after serving two and a half years in prison for making threats, left his home in Rockbridge County without the permission of his probation officer, said Ron Donelson, a senior inspector with the U.S. Marshals Service.

There was a misunderstanding with probation officers and White still has a Lexington address in Rockbridge County, explained Marshal Ron Donelson.

ROANOKE, Va. -- One of Carilion Clinic's Life-Guard helicopters had a near miss with three military jets Thursday night.

Here's what happens in "Edwin Parker" , the English artist Tacita Dean's twenty-nine-minute film of Cy Twombly: nothing much.

Highlighting the recent trend of fewer patients seeing their doctors for needed care, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report says the ability of individuals to obtain health care has declined in nearly every state during the last decade.

I'm reprinting day-to-day journal entries here from a cross-country bicycle tour my friend Bruce and I took in 1984.

The Virginia Department of Transportation will host a meeting regarding a study on the Route 60 Corridor between the intersection of Spotswood Drive and East Nelson Street in the City of Lexington and the intersection of Quarry Lane and East Midland Trail in Rockbridge County.