News

Construction on the new Shavers Center gets underway after the old center, in place for almost 50 years, was torn down.

Read More

Days after Highland County Schools Superintendent Dr. Drew Maerz announced his sudden resignation on June 26th, school board members are looking ahead at what comes next. Who will be their new superintendent to oversee the day-to-day operations of the state’s smallest school system? And, just as important, who will become the next interim superintendent while…

Read More

Highland County officials are wondering if they can fight the state in court to block a required repayment of more than $887,000 due to a school matching grant spending shortfall. The issue of legal action arose during a July 1st Highland County Board of Supervisors meeting after County School Board Chairman Jason Wilfong said preliminary…

Read More

Highland County School officials are looking for a few good teachers, so they now are offering a one-time $5,000 sign-on bonus to qualified licensed applicants to come on board. During its July 10th monthly meeting, the Highland County School board voted 3 to 0 to offer the bonus, which requires new hires to agree to…

Read More

Applications for the Emergency Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP) are being accepted from Monday, July 28 through Friday, August 8, 2025, or until funds are exhausted.

Read More

  How do you grow tourism without losing the heart of what makes a place feel like home? I sat down with Sheryl Wagner, Executive Director of Lexington & Rockbridge Area Tourism, to talk about a new strategic planning effort that could shape the next 5 years of tourism in Lexington, Buena Vista, and Rockbridge…

Read More

  Power Policy and the Price of Progress: When the Bill Comes DueAs AI continues to reshape our economy, a quieter but critical challenge is building in the background: energy. In the final installment of our investigative series Power, Policy, and the Price of Progress, we confront the rising tension between digital expansion and energy…

Read More

Part 2 of the investigative series: Power, Policy, and the Price of Progress In this second installment, we shift focus from the political momentum that launched Virginia’s data center boom to the invisible toll it’s beginning to take on our electric grid. With AI systems like ChatGPT pushing data demand to new heights, utility providers…

Read More

Fitz Gary has performed on some of the world’s greatest stages—Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Royal Albert Hall. But perhaps his most powerful work began right here in Virginia, using chamber music to combat hunger. Back in 2012, Fitz launched Music Feeds Us—a concert series designed to fight food insecurity one performance at a time….

Read More

Meck believes his proposal will enable the SWA to continue trash disposal at as low a cost as possible, although, once again, he said without a local landfill, those costs will have to be significantly higher with whatever the SWA decides to do.

Read More