MONTEREY— After an hour of debate, multiple failed motions, and recalculations of several different scenarios, the Highland County Board of Supervisors adopted a budget Monday and raised real estate ...

HOT SPRINGS — Throughout his lifetime, Paul Siple called the star he coached at Valley High School in the 1950s the greatest all-around athlete to ever come out of Bath County. Those who grew up with ...

H & H Cash Store in Monterey, a country general store operated by Jack and Gaye Harold, is said to have provided inspiration for Robert Quackenbush’s 85th children’s book. “Moose’s Store.” (Recorder ...

HOT SPRINGS — Jesse Carlyle “J.C.” Snead, 84, of Hot Springs, passed away Friday, April 25, 2025, at his residence. He was born Oct. 14, 1940, in Hot Springs, the son of the late Jesse James Snead and ...

Bryce Leitch, right, with her father and coach Thumper Leitch, after she got her 1,000th point. (Recorder file photo by Mark Pifer) Alleghany’s Bryce Leitch has been named all-state by the Basketball ...

I’d like to thank the dastardly driver from Sunday night’s entertainment for getting so many of us up to watch his shenanigans. Watching him doing doughnuts through someone’s lawn for some unknown ...

I am surprised by the Bath County Democratic Committee’s extremely negative full page ad about our rural counties in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the April 17 issue of The Recorder. It said in big ...

MILLBORO — Jessica Mace Thompson, 48, of Millboro died Sunday, April 27, 2025, at Lewis-Gale Hospital-Alleghany. She was born Jan. 19, 1977, in Bath County, to Patsy Thompson of Clifton Forge and the ...

HOT SPRINGS — Kyle Petty’s Charity Ride Across America returns to Hot Springs next weekend, where the ride will end at The Homestead on May 9. The charity ride is considered one of the most successful ...

WARM SPRINGS — Bath County leaders are proposing a tax hike for next fiscal year. In a split decision, the Bath County Board of Supervisors voted to advertise a real estate tax rate set at 70 cents ...

Bryce Leitch scores on an Addison Morris sacrifice fly in game two. (Recorder photo by Gavin Dressler) High School Softball: Alleghany 4, Carroll County 3 (7 innings); Alleghany 4, Carroll County 1.

As the world commemorates the 80th anniversary of World War II, all must read this bizarre story of an Austrian. His father’s birth name was Shicklgruber. His mother was a housekeeper. After quitting ...