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The News & Advance covers local news of interest to Lynchburg and its surrounding counties, a combined metropolitan area of 261,593 people as of the 2020 census.Topics commonly covered include development in and around the city; higher education, including Liberty University, founded by Jerry Falwell, and Randolph College, nuclear technology, as the city is home to Areva and BWX Technologies ...
Frank Trigg (c. 1850–1933), a black educator and college president, lived in the house until his death. [ 3 ] Robert Walter Johnson (1899–1971) was a Lynchburg physician, and the first minority doctor in the entire city to be granted practice rights at the Lynchburg General Hospital .
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
The Old City Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Lynchburg, Virginia. It is the oldest municipal (city-owned) cemetery still in use today in the state of Virginia, and one of the oldest such burial grounds in the United States. Since the 1990s it has been operated as a history park and arboretum, in addition to being an active cemetery.
Joey L. Smith, 62, of Kennewick, died Dec. 27 at Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland. He was born in Riverside, Calif., and lived in the Tri-Cities for 30 years. He was a carpenter and ...
The News & Advance, Lynchburg's daily newspaper that serves the Central Virginia region, owned by Berkshire Hathaway. Lynchburg Living, bi-monthly periodical; The Lynchburg Guide, quarterly resource directory; The Burg, weekly entertainment newspaper published by The News & Advance; Lynch's Ferry, a biannual journal of local history
Mosby Garland Perrow Jr. (born March 5, 1909 – May 31, 1973) was a Virginia lawyer and state senator representing Lynchburg, Virginia. [1] A champion of Virginia's public schools, Perrow became a key figure in Virginia's abandonment of "Massive Resistance" to public school desegregation, including by chairing a joint legislative committee colloquially known as the Perrow Commission.
The Times-Dispatch has the second-highest circulation of any Virginia newspaper, after Norfolk's The Virginian-Pilot. [5] In addition to the Richmond area (Petersburg, Chester, Hopewell, Colonial Heights and surrounding areas), the Times-Dispatch has substantial readership in Charlottesville, Lynchburg, and Waynesboro.