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Spruce Up Your House for a Winter Sale

Issue: January 2012 by .

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A lot of people think the best time to sell a house is in the spring, when flowers are blooming, birds are chirping and all the world seems new, but what if you need to sell your house in the winter, when it can be gloomy? How can you make your home stand out against [...]

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First Homes Going Up at The Preserve at Oakwood

Issue: December 2011 by .

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One hundred fifty years ago, the land at the corner of Rivermont Avenue and Link Road was farmland. It was likely planted with corn and one can imagine cattle grazing on its pastoral fields. It was also home to the Clopton family, who lived there in a house called Greenwood. Over time, the 100-acre farm [...]

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Building a Legacy: Brookville High School’s Continuing Campaign for the Jim Whorley Field House

Issue: November 2011 by .

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It’s not difficult to find people who loved Jim Whorley. In fact, it’s quite easy. When describing the former Brookville High School football coach and principal, those who were his students, athletes and colleagues use words like “natural leader” and “motivator.” They talk about his great sense of humor and say he was the glue [...]

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Auctions, Foreclosures and Trustee Sales: What You Need to Know, Part III: Risk Versus Reward

Issue: October 2011 by .

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So, you’ve been watching a lot of cable television lately. Particularly, shows like the A&E Network’s “Flip This House,” where people just like you buy cheap houses, fix them up and then sell them with the idea of making a fortune. With all of the foreclosures you’ve heard about on the national news lately−including about [...]

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Foreclosures, Auctions and Trustee Sales—What You Need to Know PART II: Buying a Foreclosure

Issue: September 2011 by .

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Four years ago, Lynchburg resident John Malec was having a dilemma. His 401(k) was tanking and retirement, while not imminent, was looking like a scary proposition. “My first thought was, ‘The market is doing some screwy things.’ I lost about 60 percent of the value of my 401(k) and that really ticked me off,” Malec, [...]

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Foreclosures, Auctions and Trustee Sales—What You Need to Know PART I: Buying at an Auction

Issue: August 2011 by .

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It’s a summer day in Lynchburg. The humidity is high, the sun feels inches away and the temperature is pushing 95 degrees. Gnats are in season and swarm about the heads of the hundred or so people who have gathered for a land and equipment auction on Mayflower Drive. Prospective buyers mop their brows with [...]

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CJMW Architecture—Restoring History, Encouraging Art

Issue: July 2011 by .

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Years before Lynchburg’s art galleries started opening their doors to visitors on the first Friday evening of each month, a Main Street architecture firm was hosting its own “First Fridays” to showcase local artwork. Shortly after September 11, 2001, local photographer Steve Coates and Emmett Lifsey, a principal at CJMW Architecture, were talking about a [...]

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Virginia Technical Institute: Teaching Trades to the New Era Vocational-Technical Workers

Issue: June 2011 by .

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Ken Bond didn’t want to let a good opportunity pass him by. The 45-year-old Lynch Station resident, who does odd jobs to make ends meet, decided to go back to school to learn the Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning trade, commonly called HVAC. Bond had some experience in the refrigeration business, but no official certification. [...]

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Local Tourism Takes Flight: Airshows, Blue Angels and the Advent of Summer Attractions

Issue: May 2011 by .

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When John Barksdale was trying to come up with catchy advertising slogans for the upcoming airshow, to be held May 21 and 22 at Lynchburg Regional Airport, an oft-misquoted movie line came to mind: “If you build it, they will come.” The quote, from the 1989 baseball movie “Field of Dreams,” is actually, “If you [...]

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Foster Fuels: A Family Business 90 Years Strong

Issue: April 2011 by .

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Watt Foster, Jr., owner of Foster Fuels, can laugh about it now. He calls it “required fun,” all of those teenage, summer days spent helping his dad, Watt Foster, Sr.―who goes by “Bobby”―install propane tobacco curers in Southside Virginia barns. “He went to work and he made me go with him,” Watt said of his [...]

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