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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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So you want to be a real estate agent? Here’s how…

Issue: March 2011 by .

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So you’re driving around town and you see a few “For Sale” signs on a few street corners, and the thought crosses your mind: “Hey, I could sell houses. How hard could it be?” Maybe you’re unemployed, maybe you’re looking for a career change or maybe you’ve always liked harvest gold blazers. Whatever the reason, [...]

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Digital Nuclear Power Plant Main Room Control Simulator: Big Name, Modern Results

Issue: February 2011 by .

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Central Virginia’s high-tech industries and universities will soon have a new research and development tool at their disposal: a digital nuclear power plant main room control simulator. It’s a mouthful but, in short, the simulator will be an exact model of the control room one might expect to find at a next-generation nuclear power plant. [...]

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The Center for Innovative Technology Partners with High-Tech Start-Ups

Issue: January 2011 by .

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On its Web site, the Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) poses the question, “How would you like to partner with us?” It’s this spirit of collaboration that has fueled the CIT for the past quarter century, enabling it to support thousands of budding tech companies and special projects in the Lynchburg area and across the [...]

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Ronnie’s Haircuts and Styles: Cutting Out a Spot on Main Street

Issue: November 2010 by .

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Ronnie Stemmer, Jr., stands in the doorway of his new barber shop at the south corner of 11th and Main Streets in downtown Lynchburg. It’s a few minutes after 10 a.m. and he remarks that traffic seems a little light, although admittedly it’s Columbus Day and a lot of folks are off work for the [...]

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GCEP, CAER helping make Lynchburg attractive to high-tech companies

Issue: October 2010 by .

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When he first heard about the Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program (CGEP), Bill Phister was a young engineer working for The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W). It was 1986. An actor was in the White House, Bill Buckner was on first base and everyone, it seemed, wanted a Cabbage Patch Kid. What Phister wanted, however, was [...]

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Commercial Real Estate: Area Agents Optimistic

Issue: September 2010 by .

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Real estate agent Chris Gentry has something to say about the current commercial real estate market in the Lynchburg area: It’s not bad, just different. Gentry, of Gentry Commercial Real Estate, said his business has been up in 2010, compared to last year, but he has to admit things have changed. Gentry estimated that in [...]

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