Virginia marching band refused to yield, strives to take field amid pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a lot of outside-the-box thinking for many people, including a group of high schoolers whose plans had to adapt to an unprecedented situation. Many of the members of the Lightridge High School Marching Band have never set foot in their brand-new school, which opened its doors last September with empty classrooms, as the county school system shifted to all-virtual learning. On March 3, many students will walk the halls of Lightridge High School for the first time as the school system ramps up two-day-per-week hybrid learning. And the school marching band — w...