Ram Elijah Good fights through traffic in the paint against Boys Home on Monday night. (Recorder photo by David Cockerham) High School Boys’ Basketball: Highland 69, Boys Home 25. Highland took ...

Garth Newel board chair Gene Sullivan, left, presented Georgia Tennant, center, with a beautiful oil painting on the occasion of her retirement after 40 years at Garth Newel. At far right is Garth ...

• Let it snow! I am hopeful — with snow and winter weather coming early, usually we don’t even get much snow until January or February, but this year, it is a surprise to think we might have a white ...

Pictured are just three of the many McDowell community members sponsoring a benefit supper Dec. 16. The benefit will aid a local family in meeting medical costs. Pictured, from left, are Robert Nash ...

CHESTER — Dorothy Pearson Driskill, 102, of Chester claimed her room in her Father’s mansion Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. She was born May 2, 1923, in Brunswick County, and formerly a resident of Roanoke ...

COVINGTON — Daniel Jiro Long, 56, of Covington, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025, at LewisGale Hospital in Salem. He was born Jan. 11, 1969, in Japan, a son of Mary Webb Long Buffo of White ...

The Alleghany Highlands Chamber of Commerce and Tourism conducted a ribbon cutting ceremony last Wednesday, Dec. 3, at the Five Sides Building in Clifton Forge for Hawt Stuph and Wicked Weiners, which ...

Bath County • Dec. 7 — Deputy Bryan IV checked on livestock in the road on Pig Run Road. • Dec. 7 — Deputy Colaw assisted a motorist on Warm Springs Mountain. • Dec. 7 — Colaw performed a traffic stop ...

An acquaintance of mine told me prior to the election this month, “My parents would be spinning in their graves if they knew I was voting for a Democrat.” It’s sad that there are many voters who feel ...

We all ask the question, “What do we give Mom, Dad or uncle for Christmas? They have everything; have no wants or needs.” The Alleghany Highlands Genealogical Society, located at 515 E. Pine Street ...

When I took my walk on the first very, very chilly day last week – amazing how quickly it changed from t-shirt weather to something that required covering every inch with fabric – I wore a winter-y ...