2011-01-20

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Chargers beat Blues in overtime



Bath 64, Parry McCluer 58 OT BUENA VISTA — The Parry McCluer Blues completed a 12-point comeback with a buzzer beater to send the game into overtime but the Bath County Chargers made 80% of their foul shots in the OT and took the district win Friday. Bath guard Angela Herscher scored a team-high 17 points and was 5-6 at […]

50 years ago

January 19, 1961

• Some 15,000 brown trout from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hatchery at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., will be released in Virginia waters next month and again in 1962 and 1963 in an experiment designed to determine whether or not brown trout can make a contribution to fishing in the Old Dominion. • Miss Mary Judy Swecker, daughter of […]

25 years ago

January 20, 1986

• The governor’s present budget proposal calls for cutting funds to Highland County schools by 10.42 percent for the coming fiscal year. The total loss amounts to $42,659 from the $244,060 of state assistance. • Former Highland County Commonwealth Attorney Ralph Turner Jones is planning to retire from his law practice of 52 years at the end of the month. […]

Settlement history recounted



Editor’s note: The following article was gleaned from the Sept. 16, 1976 edition of The Recorder. Joseph C. Pritchard was editor and publisher. The essay by seventh grader Marie May was judged first from entries submitted to the Bath County Historical Society in its annual contest. The story told here points at the close ties of Bath and Highland counties […]

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One man’s trash another’s treasure

A Party of One

A fellow I was talking with the other day mentioned he had to go to “the crematory.” I smiled and gleefully said, “Geez; that proves you’re an old Bath County boy!” Those of you who have moved here in the last, say, 40 years, are probably perplexed. The crematory? Isn’t that, like, the very last stop one makes on this […]

Former Bath residents miss the mountains



Editor, The Recorder, I went online to see if I could find any news about Herman Cauley and I was thrilled to read the article about Herman and Edie written in October. They were our dear friends when my husband and I lived in Bath County while my husband worked on the Vepco project. Our daughter was born in Staunton […]

Community thanked for donations of food



Editor, The Recorder, We would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one for the donations of hams for the food pantry at Windy Cove Church and also the Craigsville food pantry. We needed, and received 300 hams! Everyone was so nice and some donated five or six hams, or just gave money to purchase more. We […]

Bath rebounds to beat P-burg



Parry McCluer 50, Bath 34 WARM SPRINGS — The Parry Mc- Cluer Blues took sole possession of first place in the Pioneer District with a win over the Chargers last Thursday at BCHS. Bath’s shooters had a hard time getting going and when they finally did the Blues held a comfortable 17-point fourth-quarter lead. “We shot poorly,” said Bath coach […]