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Wintergreen Brings In Seasonal Tourists, Jobs

Issue: January 2012 by .

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With more than 500 employees, Wintergreen is one of the top job and revenue generators in Central Virginia’s hospitality industry. And in a trying-to-recover economy, the taxes generated by skiing, food and lodging are almost indispensable for the public services in rural Nelson County. The resort generated roughly 35 percent of the entire food and [...]

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Going Greener: First Piedmont Offers Another Curbside Recycling Option to Lynchburg

Issue: December 2011 by .

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A second private curbside recycling business is pulling into Lynchburg this month with a pilot program aimed at Rivermont and Boonsboro area. Chatham-based First Piedmont Waste Removal and Disposal is fielding roughly 200 participants for a six-month trial, as part of the company’s first foray into curbside collection, Carabae Hasson, First Piedmont’s sales and marketing [...]

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Heating Water the Solar Way—Lynchburg College Makes the Switch

Issue: August 2011 by .

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Lynchburg College recently began collecting sun rays as part of a solar water heating system. Installation officials estimate it will pay for itself in less than a decade and save thousands of dollars. Ironically, the solar look is a retro one for the college, which had a solar water heater installed on Montgomery Hall, a [...]

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Cut It Down or Pay Up: Overgrown Grass Violations Still a Nuisance in the City

Issue: June 2011 by .

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It was a “nothing fancy” kind of operation in 1996. Back then, Carroll Baker cruised around Lynchburg in an old ambulance with a couple of inmates, knocking down the city’s greenest perennial eyesore—overgrown grass. That’s defined as 12 or more inches, if you want to violate code in these parts. “We’ve come a long way,” [...]

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The Last of the Local Dairy Farmers

Issue: May 2011 by .

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Rising fuel, feed and fertilizer prices continue to narrow profit margins for dairy producers nationwide. All three recently contributed to one local farm’s decision to shutter its milking parlors after more than 50 years of production. Delvin Yoder and his family ran what was, until March, the smallest dairy farm in Campbell County. By turn, [...]

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Buying Burials: Are cemetery plots the new real estate recession?

Issue: January 2011 by .

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Chris Tharp doesn’t work for the IRS, but his job is about as so-called “recession proof” as it gets. At the same time, with the economy languid over the last several years, the third-generation funeral home Tharp runs is trying to stay attuned to what people want, and can afford, in a funeral … if [...]

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Local “Engineers Without Borders” Test the Limits in Bolivia

Issue: February 2010 by .

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There’s a classic scene from “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” where Robert Redford steps off a train in Bolivia, silently surveys a rural, arid landscape for the first time in his life…and then throws a fit. “Ha, ha, ha, ha…Bolivia!” Redford heckles. In Lynchburg, there’s a newly-formed chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) who—if [...]

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