In the fall of 2021, cavers removed a skeleton of an ice age cat in Lee County. The lab technician working to free the skeleton from the surrounding rock estimates she has already devoted roughly 1,000 hours to the project, with more to come.
Emily Hemphill
Emily Hemphill is a Political Science and Journalism major at the University of Mary Washington and sports editor of the school paper, the Weekly Ringer. She is from Roanoke.
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A bird that shouldn’t be here has been spotted in the Shenandoah Valley
Birders are flocking to Rockingham County to see a MacGillivray’s warbler, a West Coast species that should be in Mexico or Central America for the winter.
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Virginia’s Black hospital for TB patients finally gets a historical marker
More Blacks than whites contracted TB; many went to the Piedmont Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Nottoway County for treatment.
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Girls’ hockey takes the ice in Vinton
Lynchburg-based coach holds All Girls Hockey Camp.
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Banners, business cards, basketball jerseys: the cost of changing a school’s name
Dabney S. Lancaster Community College will become Mountain Gateway on July 1, a process that has taken months — and $250,000 — to complete.