2021-02-04

2021-02-04 E-Edition

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Virginia Nowlin stands with a plaque outside the Bath County High School auditorium, recently named in honor of her late husband, Percy C. “Buzz” Nowlin, who died in April 2020. Mr. Nowlin served as superintendent of Bath County Public Schools for 18 years. (Recorder photo by Mike Bollinger)

Virus claims 8 lives in Bath

First Highlander hospitalized

MONTEREY and WARM SPRINGS — In an unsettling turn of events, the Virginia Department of Health is now reporting eight coronavirus-related deaths for Bath County. There had been no deaths reported in either Bath or Highland until Sunday, when all eight for Bath were reported at one time. Robert Parker, public officer for the VDH Western Region, said mortality data […]

Phased return to school begins

60 percent of staff has first dose of vaccination

HOT SPRINGS — With students in grades pre-K through three returning to school Jan. 25, the phased return of students to in-person learning in Bath County has begun. Superintendent Sue Hirsh updated the Bath County School Board on that return Tuesday. She said students in grades four through 12 will return Monday. “We are moving through the second phase, and […]

Virginia Gov. Northam announces restrictions extended


RICHMOND — Saying he knows people are frustrated with trying to receive the coronavirus vaccine in Virginia, Gov. Ralph Northam said in a press conference last Wednesday the state will soon have a central number for people to call to sign up. As of now, Northam said, people need to visit their health district’s web site or call their health […]

State budget could include pilot broadband program


MONTEREY and WARM SPRINGS — Proposals have been made in the governor’s budget for a pilot program that could allow local broadband authorities to apply for Virginia Telecommunication Initiative grants. Hunter Moore, regional planner for the Central Shenandoah Planning District Commission, told the Bath-Highland Network Authority Monday the pilot program for the VATI funds would be a one-year program. Network […]

In brief …

Bath County School Board

• Tuesday, the Bath County School Board approved the Bath County High School program of studies. There are two revisions incorporated into 2021-22. A requirement was inserted that all eighth grade students take the digital applications course, and emphasis was placed on the possibility, as resources allow, to offer economics and personal finance as a three-credit hour course through Dabney […]

Agenda

Bath County Board of Supervisors

Tuesday, Feb. 9 — 6 p.m.Bath County Courthouse Due to COVID-19 masks must be worn in the courthouse according to orders from Circuit Court Judge Stein and Gov. Ralph Northam. • Consider ordinance changing property tax assessment from calendar year to fiscal year. • Appointments to boards and commissions — Bath Highland Broadband Authority, at-large; Building Code Board of Appeals, […]

Charles ‘Charlie’ James Hinton III

DAYTON — Charles “Charlie” James Hinton III, of Dayton, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. He was born in Bath County on Nov. 11, 1928, a son of the late Charles James Hinton Jr. and Octave Jhanet Rhea Hinton. He served in the United States Army. He worked at the Cascades Inn in Hot Springs, on different farms in Bath […]

David Hunter Hepler

CRAIGSVILLE — David Hunter Hepler, 73, of Craigsville, went to be with the Lord Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021 at Augusta Health in Fishersville. He was born June 11, 1947 in Millboro, the son of the late Hale Hunter Hepler and Sadie Mae Canterberry Hepler. He retired from Virginia Department of Transportation after 39 years of service as a surveyor. He […]