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BY AUSTIN HALL • STAFF WRITER ALLEGHENY HIGHLANDS – It’s hot and it’s cold, there’s pollen and there’s snow. Mother nature refuses to make up her mind, so, whilst she decides on the state of order around here, I’ve got some good entertainment to keep you nestled up inside and sane for the next few weeks. New movies

WARM SPRINGS – Tuesday, Sherry Ryder, planning and zoning administrator, gave a presentation on the 2024-25 capital improvement project requests. The requests were graded by the planning commission last month. Replacing an ambulance was given a rating of A, high priority. Improving all three school entrances was also given a rating of A. The 39 East well project was given […]

Bath and Alleghany County firefighters arrived Sunday afternoon to put out the brush fire caused when a plane crashed at Ingalls Fields. (Recorder photo by Austin Hall) HOT SPRINGS – A plane crashed at Ingalls Field Airport Sunday afternoon, killing five — a pilot, co-pilot, two adults, and a child. At 2:58 p.m., the Bath County 911 Center received a […]

HOT SPRINGS – Get ready for a time-honored tradition at the 22nd annual Bluegrass Jamboree on April 13. The event will be held at Bath County High School, with Puff’s BBQ selling food and refreshments for those in attendance. “Your bloodline just drives you,” Willie Smith said. “I’ve always played music; my grandfather played. It just comes from generations of […]

BY AUSTIN HALL • STAFF WRITER ALLEGHENY HIGHLANDS – This week is about redeeming myself. I recommended a Sydney Sweeney movie last week and then skipped off to the theater to go watch it. Well, let me tell you, the movie definitely relies on every part of Sweeney. Anyway, to save you the trouble, woman has baby put inside of her, baby is abomination, and then she is reborn and smashes the baby with a rock. What does it all mean? I don’t know. Something about abortion and religion. I’m not going to unpack all of that here. I...

HOT SPRINGS — Tuesday, the Bath County School Board expressed frustration at recent comments made by the Bath County Board of Supervisors about its budget. Despite the supervisors’ calls on March 26 to cut roughly $500,000 from the school budget, the school board did not hold a budget discussion this week. But school board member Clara Tennant took issue with […]

BY AUSTIN HALL • STAFF WRITER HOT SPRINGS – The Bath County Board of Supervisors and Bath County School Board reached a compromise last Wednesday night. “We need to come to some consensus and find common ground to move the county forward,” county administrator Michael Bender said in his opening remarks.

HOT SPRINGS – It took just 20 minutes for the Bath County School Board to cut additional expenses at a work session last Wednesday, April 24. A week before, at a joint meeting between the board of supervisors and school board on April 17, board chair Lynn Ellen Black informed the school board it should cut at least an additional […]

BY AUSTIN HALL • STAFF WRITER ALLEGHENY HIGHLANDS – It’s going to be a long weekend! So, get ready for some of this year’s best entertainment to come out. New movies Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to dive into a world of pure anarchy and chaos. “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” (2024) hits theaters this weekend and it’s going to be a movie to remember. From the guy who made a movie about a pig and then made another movie about a penguin with happy feet comes a movie about a bunch of crazy folks in the outback shooting at each othe...

BY AUSTIN HALL • STAFF WRITER ALLEGHENY HIGHLANDS – So this is it. The last ever What’s Hot. Someone once asked me why I picked that as my column’s title. I said it was because it sounded like a stupid enough title to fit inside of an entertainment magazine. That clears that up. Read until the end for a proper goodbye. First, I’ve got to give you this week’s entertainment. New movies “In a Violent Nature” (2024) is opening nationwide this week. The film follows a serial killer as he hunts his prey around the woods. It sound...