2021-07-15

2021-07-15 E-Edition

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Artists descended on Valley Elementary School in Ashwood over the weekend to drop off their works for the Bath County Art Show. The show, which was first held in 1965, returns this year after being cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sponsored by the Bath County Arts Association, the show opens to the public on Saturday, July 17 […]

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Blue Ridge Thunder entertained last weekend at a lawn party hosted by the Highland County Arts Council at The Highland Center. See story, photos page 7-8. (Recorder photo by Anne Adams)

Bath denies sale to Family Dollar


WARM SPRINGS — Bath County will not be getting a Family Dollar store on property owned by the county in Mitchelltown. Tuesday, the Bath County Board of Supervisors voted not to sell part of the property that was originally purchased for building a visitors’ center. Stronach Properties of Raleigh, N.C., a developer for Family Dollar, had made an unsolicited offer […]

In brief…

Bath County Board of Supervisors

• Tuesday, the Bath County Board of Supervisors accepted a bid from Thor Construction of Roanoke to repair two of the columns on the portico of the courthouse. They will be replaced with columns with a steel core wrapped in fiberglass and then covered with stucco to match the other columns. The work will cost $517,000. A plywood tunnel will […]

Localities urged to ‘go big’ with broadband funding


BOLAR — The state wants localities to go all-in when it comes to applications for broadband funding, the Bath-Highland Network Authority learned Monday. Hunter Moore, regional planner with the Central Shenandoah Planning District Commission, told the authority the state will receive $4.3 billion from the American Rescue Plan, and she expects Virginia to put a significant amount of that money […]

Case counts rise slightly


ALLEGHENY HIGHLANDS — Coronavirus case counts in Alleghany, Covington and Highland rose slightly during the past week. The VDH has reported four new cases of coronavirus in Alleghany County over the past week, bringing the cumulative total there to 1,391. Three new cases have been reported in Covington, giving the city a cumulative total of 614. In Highland, one additional […]

New chairman, co-chair named for school board


COVINGTON — Bert Baker and Jonathan Arritt assumed new roles on the Covington City School Board during its reorganizational meeting last Wednesday. Baker, who was the board’s co-chairman, was elevated to the role of chairman, while Arritt became vice chairman. Both appointments were approved with a unanimous 5-0 vote. Also, the two newest members of the school board, Jay Woodson […]

In brief…

Highland County School Board

• The Highland County school board discussed potential changes to a range of policies Monday, considering everything from sick leave and vacation days to spending, inventory and athletics. The only policy on which they voted was to change the accumulated sick leave policy to allow a maximum of 100 accumulated days. Any days over that amount will be paid out […]

Glenn Houston ‘Candy’ Criser

HOT SPRINGS — On July 8, 2021, at the age of 74, Glenn Houston “Candy” Criser of Warm Springs, passed away peacefully at Bath Community Hospital in Hot Springs. He was a wonderful husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, friend, and neighbor. At the time of his passing, he was surrounded by his devoted wife and loving children. Over the last 26 […]