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Chelsey Lynne Isles received the crown and sash of Junior Miss Fire Queen out of a field of eight contestants, from 2009 queen Presley Marshall. Isles is the daughter of Mike and Becky Isles. More ... CHARLOTTESVILLE – Did you receive it? Have you sent it back? Your 2010 U.S. Census form should have arrived at your door – not in your post office box – in March. If you have not yet returned it, you can expect a knock on that door at any time. More ... WILLIAMSBURG — Scott Foster didn’t just win a seat on Williamsburg’s city council Tuesday. He broke records doing it. Foster won by a landslide, getting the most votes among five candidates seeking two seats. He also raised the most money of any candidate — more than $10,000. And he becomes the first college student ever elected to the council. More ... MONTEREY — His working environment isn’t exactly ideal. Tim Duff of Mill Gap wrote this week about conditions in Haiti, where an earthquake decimated the Caribbean country a year ago. More ... WARM SPRINGS — The only debate about the Bath County school budget last Thursday was how supervisors would appropriate the $6.25 million the schools requested. More ... Any teacher will tell you that if learning is fun, it can happen much faster. Violin teachers Gretta Sandberg and Jaime Letourneau recently attended a teacher training workshop in Cleveland, Ohio, and returned with a new way to teach the violin and other string instruments to their students in Bath and Highland. More ... LEXINGTON — Rockbridge Area Community Services is urging clients to monitor credit reports and other personal information after six computers were removed from the agency’s former location in Bacova, which was heavily damaged by a fire in November. More ... MONTEREY — For more than 12 years, Carolyn Pohowsky of Hightown has served at the helm of the Highland County Chamber of Commerce. She told the chamber board earlier this year she intended to retire from that role after Maple Festival, and the board has begun its search for her replacement. More ... MONTEREY — After months of filming and editing, a documentary featuring Highland County has been completed. Friday, May 14, folks can come view the familiar faces of their neighbors who were integral to telling Highland’s stories on film. More ... MONTEREY — David Bradley Drawbaugh will face a jury trial this fall. Drawbaugh arrived in Monterey Friday with his attorney, Aaron Graves, to have a trial date set by Judge Humes Franklin Jr. While Drawbaugh sat in the courtroom, Graves and special prosecutor Chris Singleton, Bath commonwealth’s attorney, went into the judge’s chambers. More ... The Highland County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals participated in a nationwide pet Adoptathon Saturday and Sunday. Over the past week nine cats were adopted from Highland County. More ... Bath County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, May 11 — Closed meeting 6 p.m. Regular meeting 7 p.m. More ... By Anne Adams, Publisher MONTEREY — The Recorder staff was thrilled last week to learn that Jessica Rogers, our advertising director, won two awards in the Virginia Press Association’s advertising contest. More ... Pictured (l-r) are first runner up Brianna Grace Wimer, daughter of Steven and Yvonne Wimer; Tiny Miss Fire Queen Camryn Alexandra Carpenter, daughter of John and Candi Carpenter; and second runner up More ... • Virginia Department of Transportation employee Mike Henry filled in for Lexington Residency administrator Susan Hammond at Tuesday’s meeting of the Highland County Board of Supervisors. Henry said a residency representative would only be able to come to the meeting every other month due to a conflict w More ... MONTEREY — Unofficial election results are in and the citizens of Monterey returned all incumbents to office on Tuesday. Mayor Janice Warner received 34 votes; and councilmen Don Dowdy, 38; Francis Fenn, 37; Dale Hammer, 38; and Ron Wimer, 39. There were 67 write-in votes. Councilman Tony Stinnett received 16 writein votes and councilman Butch Washer received 21. More ... Millboro 4-H Cloverbuds met for their first monthly meeting April 22. Topics included birds and planting, led by Christine Hodges, Emily Adams and Crystal Misiak. More ... FRANKLIN, W.Va. — Julia Child, the legendary chef who changed the way Americans think about cooking and eating, will be portrayed in a program at Pendleton County Library on Sunday, May 16 at 3 p.m. This event, sponsored by Friends of the Library, features Karen Vuranch of Fayetteville, storyteller, playwright, and interpreter of historical characters. More ... LEWISBURG — Greenbrier Valley Theatre presents “The 39 Steps,” adapted from the Alfred Hitchcock movie and John Buchan novel by Patrick Barlow, opening Friday, May 13 at 8 p.m. More ... BELINGTON, W.Va. — In every community, there are people who go above and beyond their usual work to make a significant difference in the lives of thousands. These advocates can come from every discipline, but many times they are social workers. More ... MONTEREY — A National Day of Prayer for Creation Care, sponsored by numerous Christian organizations, will be held in Washington, D.C. on May 25. Leading up to this event, a number of people will walk from Ansted, W.Va. to Washington. More ... Trottin’ 4-H Horse Club met at Turtle Brook Farm, home of Claudia Campbell, on March 29, for its monthly meeting. More ... RICHMOND — The Commonwealth Transportation Board will hold four public hearings to solicit public comments about essential rail, transit, transportation demand management, bicycle, pedestrian and highway projects in the working draft of its 2011-12 Six-Year Improvement Program to be approved by the CTB in June. More ... The Bath County Public Library held a reception April 11, sponsored by the Bath County Friends of the Library, in celebration of National Library Week. More ... The Mountain Valley Players presented “Faith County” April 30 and May 1-2 at Bath County High School. More ... The Bath-Highland Bird Club will meet Monday, May 10 at 7 p.m. in the Bolar Ruritan Club Building. More ... Nearly 40 volunteers participated in the dismantling of the sheep barn on Saturday at the Highland County Fairgrounds in preparation for new barn construction that will begin in mid-May. More ... MONTEREY — Recently Highland FFA Chapter members Savannah Heavner, Dustin Chapman, and Derek Burns, played a big part in bringing pride to the Highland FFA Chapter. More ... HOT SPRINGS and MONTEREY — Junior 4-H Camp will be held from Aug. 2-6 at the W.E. Skelton 4-H Educational Center at Smith Mountain Lake 4-H Center near Roanoke. The extended deadline to register is June 1. More ... MONTEREY —Have fun exploring drama, art, music and dance during the Highland County Arts Council’s summer camps this season. This will be an exciting year featuring three different programs for interested families to choose: Drama Camp — June 28-July 3; Arts Camp — July 5-9; and a Strings Program in the mornings of each of the two weeks. More ... MILLBORO — On Saturday, May 15 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., John and Caryl Cowden of Fort Lewis Lodge will once again welcome biologists, agencies, local organizations, and the public to spend a day at the river for the annual Mussel Festival. More ... HOT SPRINGS — Gladys Ingalls, daughter of M.E. Ingalls, owner of The Homestead in Hot Springs, was instrumental in establishing the first rural nursing program in America. More ... GOSHEN — Debi Ratliff, co-manager of the Goshen Branch of the Rockbridge Regional Library, is one of 16 scholarship winners of the “Rural Librarian Master’s Scholarship” from the University of Tennessee, School of Information Sciences. More ... MONTEREY — Food filled tables lined one end of the Highland Elementary School gym to the other Friday, and the crowd gathered to honor the Highland FFA chapter was twice as long as that. But who expected anything less than good food and good company at an FFA event? More ... MONTEREY — “The county made a decision not to fund the furlough day that the state had authorized,” supervisor Jerry Rexrode told Highland County sheriff Herb Lightner Tuesday. Lightner challenged the board’s decision in a series of letters and memos. More ... MONTEREY — On Thursday, April 29, a cloud of smoke covered a portion of Highland County. Was it a national forest controlled burn out of control? It wasn’t us, said United States Forest Service district ranger Patrick Sheridan. It might have been a controlled burn in West Virginia that blew east over the county. More ... MONTEREY — Tourism and travel in Highland County could contribute as much as $15 million in spending and $3 million in payroll, Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation executive director W. Denman Zirkle told the Highland supervisors Tuesday. In addition, 176 people have travelrelated jobs in Highland. More ... |
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Aging in the Highlands
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Aging in the Highlands
