June/July 2015 Special Advertising Section: Are You Career Ready?
MILLER-MOTTE TECHNICAL COLLEGE PROVIDES NON-TRADITIONAL EDUCATION OPTIONS WHILE LYNCHBURG CITY SCHOOLS START CAREER AWARENESS AT AN EARLY AGE By Megan L. House Whether you are right out of high school,...
View ArticleAll Hands on Deck: Lynchburg students put their skills to the test with hands...
By JONATHAN PARKER A dozen high school students pound nails into the wood, quickly piecing a wall together. They work as a team only stopping occasionally to ask their teacher questions. In this class,...
View ArticleNew Covenant Schools Expands, Continues Focus on Classical Education
Change is sometimes more synonymous with growth than with departure, a fact that has proven especially true for New Covenant Schools. The private school has experienced two significant changes...
View ArticleThriveworks: “You Can Thrive. We Can Help.”
For many who contact a professional counselor to make important life-changing decisions, the experience can be less than personal, overwrought with fear, anxiety and uncomfortable surroundings. One...
View ArticleA Place of Giving: Carol’s Place Opens Doors to Local Organizations to Raise...
Amongst the hustle and bustle inside Carol’s Place restaurant in Forest, there are orders being taken, fluffy pancakes being flipped, soapy dishes getting cleaned and all of it is orchestrated by...
View ArticleA Page-Turning Performance: Local Opera and Literacy Nonprofits Team Up to...
The written word enters through your eyes and sets framework for the theatre of the mind. Opera insinuates one’s ears, adding substance to visual theatre. It is rare to be able to compare subject...
View ArticlePrincipal Promotion–New Year, New Leadership at Lynchburg City Schools
Lynchburg City Schools (LCS) opened the new school year August 26 with several new faces in key management positions. Five new principals—two in elementary schools, two in middle schools and one in...
View ArticleAre Entrepreneurs Born or Made? Region 2000 and local colleges are working to...
By nature, entrepreneurship is tough to quantify. Successful entrepreneurs combine diverse intangibles in a tossed salad that offers no easy explanation or simple understanding. Knowledge, guile and...
View ArticleThe Motherhood Collective: A Dream that Gave Birth to a Wealth of Resources...
Much like birth, dreams are often born out of a season of growth. For Lauren Barnes, Executive Director of a Central Virginia nonprofit, The Motherhood Collective, the dream that was conceived out of a...
View ArticleThe Motherhood Collective: A Dream that Gave Birth to a Wealth of Resources...
Much like birth, dreams are often born out of a season of growth. For Lauren Barnes, Executive Director of a Central Virginia nonprofit, The Motherhood Collective, the dream that was conceived out of a...
View ArticleArt & SOLs Team Up at Randolph College’s Maier Museum of Art
Randolph College is home to Lynchburg’s nationally-recognized art museum. Since 1920, the Maier Museum of Art on the college’s campus has collected art by notable and outstanding American artists from...
View ArticleCinematic arts program at Liberty University continues to expand
With a goal to provide students abstract and practical experience using world-class technology, the Cinematic Arts, Zaki Gordon Center at Liberty University continues to rapidly expand, immersing...
View ArticleHooked on NOOKs! Holy Cross Regional Catholic School blends book power with...
Idle hands are no longer a problem at Holy Cross Regional Catholic School, as NOOKs and other advancing technology were introduced to the students during the 2013-2014 school year. In the past,...
View ArticleBeacon of Hope Aims to Raise College Attendance in Central Virginia
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 66 percent of our nation’s high school graduates attended college last year. In Lynchburg, that number is almost 10 percent lower, at 57 percent. Neither...
View ArticleWordWorks! transforms old 5th street gas station into literary hangout
Lynchburg’s 5th Street can be a sore subject for some locals. Many do not consider it one of the safer parts of town, and the inconvenience of the evidently eternal roadwork near the Main Street...
View ArticleA Page-Turning Performance: Local Opera and Literacy Nonprofits Team Up to...
The written word enters through your eyes and sets framework for the theatre of the mind. Opera insinuates one’s ears, adding substance to visual theatre. It is rare to be able to compare subject...
View ArticlePrincipal Promotion–New Year, New Leadership at Lynchburg City Schools
Lynchburg City Schools (LCS) opened the new school year August 26 with several new faces in key management positions. Five new principals—two in elementary schools, two in middle schools and one in...
View ArticleAre Entrepreneurs Born or Made? Region 2000 and local colleges are working to...
By nature, entrepreneurship is tough to quantify. Successful entrepreneurs combine diverse intangibles in a tossed salad that offers no easy explanation or simple understanding. Knowledge, guile and...
View Article110 years later, Lynchburg College has no trouble with the curve
For 110 years, Lynchburg College (LC) has been ahead of its own curve. Defined by LC founder Dr. Josephus Hopwood, the 214-acre campus master plan is based on an elliptical concept that symbolically...
View ArticleKeeping Sites Safe: Local Colleges Offer Degrees in Cybersecurity
Progress begets opportunity. Opportunity is the impetus propelling us from the horse and buggy to the electric car. On a little darker note, it also induces the sticky-fingered pickpocket to evolve...
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