National election campaign hits home
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Virginia hasn’t voted to put a Democrat in the White House since Lyndon Johnson’s landslide victory in 1964. But now with the state's battleground status firmly in place, local Democrats and Republicans know the Rockbridge area's vote could be crucial. |
| City blocks plan for bank |
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Lexington City Council halted plans to construct a bank on East Nelson Street because the building's drive-through windows would encroach on city-owned property. Others have ideas for how the space should be used. |
| Disaster status could help Rockbridge area farmers |
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| Farmers await news of aid a week after the Rockbridge County Board of Supervisors sent Gov. Tim Kaine a plea for drought disaster aid to alleviate some damages from the three-year dry spell. |
| Other area news |
| A judge has sentenced Tanya Bane to five years in prison for felony child neglect that resulted in the death of her infant son last October. Bane has already served eight months of her sentence while awaiting trial. |
| Officials continue to investigate the origin of a fire that broke out at North Fork Lumber in Goshen Saturday afternoon. Rockbridge area firefighters battled flames for nine hours and managed to contain the fire to the company’s sawmill building, county emergency management and hazardous materials coordinator Robert Foresman said. |
Producer: Helen Coupe
Associate Producers: Jane Lee, Laura Sanders, Catherine Carlock and Caroline Davis
Production Assistant: Jason Bacaj, Adam Cancryn and Alicia Budich
September is National Hunger Awareness month.
Produced by
Washington and Lee
journalism students.
Lead Supervisors:
Prof. Brian
Richardson
Prof. Indira Somani
Editing supervisor:
Prof. Pamela Luecke
Reporting Supervisors:
Prof. Doug Cumming
Prof. Indira Somani
Technical supervisor: Michael Todd