The Shadow
1 – Former Bath County resident Christopher King of Fauber is nominated for a Grammy award.
2 – Ntelos Wireless announces that it is partnering with Cell Phones for Soldiers for the holidays to support mobile phone collection efforts that benefit military personnel stationed around the world.
3 – Clifton Forge holds its annual Christmas parade.
Dr. Mike Moran is serving as the medical director for the Alleghany County Sheriff’s Office.
5 – Covington holds its annual Christmas parade.
7 – The outgoing Bath County School Board bids farewell.
Covington City Council opts to discuss water and sewer billing at a later date.
Alleghany County will receive state funding to help cover the cost of installing a new water line in the Dolly Ann area.
8 – Covington VFW Post 1033 and Clifton Forge VFW Post 4299 remember the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Plans to offer luxury train service between The Greenbrier and Washington, D.C., are on hold due to new federal regulations.
9 – MeadWestvaco holds a groundbreaking ceremony for its new No. 1 biomass power boiler.
Congressman Bob Goodlatte makes a $1,000 donation to the Bath County Christmas Mother program.
10 – Buck Rumpf is honored as a 50-year member of the Sharon Ruritan Club.
12 – Christmas parades are held in Iron Gate and Millboro.
13 – Covington school officials are anxiously awaiting word from Gov. McDonnell regarding funding for public education in the state’s 2012-14 biennium.
The proposed calendar for the 2012-13 school year is presented to the Alleghany County School Board.
14 – Three Bath County supervisors – Chairman Richard Byrd, Percy Nowlin and Jon Trees – bid farewell, as they hold their final regular meeting before a new board takes office on Jan. 1.
Covington City Council tables the issuance of $7.5 million in sewer system revenue bonds in the face of uncertainty about how the city would pay the money back.
Clifton Forge Town Council votes to grant a tax exemption to the Clifton Forge School of the Arts.
15 – Bill Cannon is named the new Covington city manager.
Bath County Christmas Mother Angie Keyser assists 140 families.
16 – The Covington girls basketball team prepares for a trip to Florida.
17 – The Virginia Tourism Corp. awards a $12,500 grant to the Alleghany Highlands Chamber of Commerce and Tourism.
19 – Bath County holds its annual Christmas parade in downtown Hot Springs.
A reception is held for retiring Bath County Treasurer Mary Susan Blankenship.
20 – Bath County Commissioner of the Revenue Leta Norfleet and her staff take the oath of office.
21 – Councilman Richard Erskine, Vice Mayor Bobby Daniel Sr. and Joyce N. Aldridge, clerk and treasurer, are recognized for their service to the town of Iron Gate.
22 – Boys’ Home holds its 51st annual cottage Christmas decorating contest.
23 – David Hayslett wins MeadWestvaco’s annual Christmas card contest.
24 – Alleghany Highlands Christmas Mother Carolyn Young thanks the community for its donations during her time as Christmas Mother.
Local photographer and author Chuck Almarez has written a pre-historic Christmas story for children.
27 – Alleghany County Sheriff Kevin Hall is sworn in for his second term as sheriff by Debra Byer, Alleghany County Clerk of Circuit Court.
28 – Alleghany County Treasurer-elect Wanda Simpson and Commissioner of the Revenue Valerie Bruffey take the oath of office, along with their deputy commissioners and deputy treasurers.
29 – Darin Buckner of Llama Drive in Covington is the winner of the Covington Junior Woman’s Club annual Holiday Home Decorating Contest.
30 – Iron Gate Town Council discusses wheelchair access at the town’s park on the Cowpasture River during its regular December meeting.
31 – An effort to consolidate Alleghany County and the city of Covington is voted the top news story in 2011 by Virginian Review staff members.
