Hey Rockbridge,
It’s been an exciting winter reporting the news in one of the coolest small towns in America. We’ve covered snow storms, tremendous school board budget dilemmas, gang trials, and much more. The Rockbridge Area might be small, but there’s always something going on despite its sleepy feel.

But some of the most interesting stories are what goes on in our very own newsroom.

For the past few months, our reporters, professors, faculty members and my co-producer and I have been working day and night to bring the community the best coverage of local issues as possible. Any given night at least one of our diligent reporters is plugging away at a story for the Rockbridge Report. On Thursdays when we launch the Web site and broadcast the news on Channel 18, all the excitement takes place, especially in the control room.


I hope you’ve enjoyed our news coverage this winter, and that you continue to check out The Rockbridge Report next fall.


A special thank you to all the wonderful people behind The Rockbridge Report. Without you, none of this would’ve been possible.

Until next time –



Farrell

Openings, closings?

I have to admit, I had to resist the urge to break out into the famous Village People party anthem more than a few times while working on this week’s Rockbridge Report.

After years of planning, the Rockbridge Area YMCA opened its new doors early Monday morning. The health club has also expanded its services thanks to its bigger facility. The new building, located at the College Square shopping center off of Route 11, allows for multiple fitness classes at once. The folks at the Y also plan to offer classes to teach young people about healthy lifestyle choices and habits.

Meanwhile, Lexington and Rockbridge Area tourism plans to use geocaching, high-tech treasuring hunting using GPS equipment, to attract visitors to the area when they launch the Gems of Rockbridge Geocache Trail in June.

And how does a speed limit of 70 on I-81 sound? The General Assembly passed a bill allowing this increase, but first VDOT has to conduct speed surveys to see which parts of the interstate are safe enough to make this change.

The battle of the county school budget raged on this week. The Board of Supervisors decided on Monday not to grant the school board full funding for the shortfall. The supervisors will hold a public hearing later this month.

That’s all for this week. Tune in the Channel 18 next Thursday at 4:30 p.m. and check out rockbridgereport.wlu.edu for this semester’s last Rockbridge Report.


-Victoria