Concord News

For the last three years, Peter Neofotis has been performing his short stories in various venues around New York City - all of them set in a fictional community which gives his debut collection its title: Concord, Virginia: A Southern Town in Eleven Stories .

Twenty-eight-year-old author, Peter Neofotis developed the tales of his short story collection, "Concord, Virginia" by night, while working by day at the NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies in NY, where he was a contributing author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - which shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.

Many Rockbridge area performers consider Theater at Lime Kiln their home. On Saturday, June 27th and Sunday, June 28th, Lime Kiln hosts two events featuring artists who can make that claim.

An application to spread biosolids on a total of 3,587 acres scattered over more than 160 sites in Campbell County was opened up to public comment Thursday night.

Concord, VA - The Swat Valley region of Pakistan is in chaos. Millions of refugees are swarming camps- short on food, water, and medical supplies- after fleeing areas now claimed by the Taliban.

Demolition crews are tearing down two Fifth Street buildings, a move designed to attract new development but opposed by corridor advocates.

Theater at Lime today released information about its 2009 season, stocked full of music, Shakespeare, juggling and STONEWALL COUNTRY! Executive Director Kim Renz says this should be a really successful year for the 26-year-old arts presenting organization.

A long-haired man walked into Doug Pickeral's downtown barbershop about 30 years ago and asked for "a G.I. haircut." The way Pickeral tells the story, he was halfway done with the haircut when the man spoke again: "Doug, I just killed a man." "You didn't kill nobody!" Pickeral said in disbelief.

April 7, 2009 Gleaning for the World & Thomas Road Baptist Church to merge An organization that helps people around the world is teaming up with a church in Lynchburg.

Growth in the Brookville and Rustburg areas of Campbell County could mean changes to where almost 200 students attend school.

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee will address the economic challenges facing faith-based organizations at a series of Lynchburg-area events Sunday and Monday.

Before the Rev. Ron Davidson founded Gleaning for the World, he'd never worked with the homeless before.

A gala fund-raiser benefiting the Rockbridge Area Leadership Scholarship will be held at the Lexington Golf and Country Club at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 28.

A jury trial is set to begin this morning for an Orange County man charged with murder in the April shooting death of a Lynchburg man in the parking lot of a Candlers Mountain Road hotel.

Campbell County's priorities for the next year likely will focus on internal reorganization to find ways to save money instead of projects requiring spending.

A pursuit that began as a traffic stop ended in a wreck, landing a Lynchburg man in the hospital, according to State Police.

The city of Lynchburg greeted Tember Kier Ferguson with fanfare at her birth on Oct.

The prospect of a waterline hit new heights on Monday as Appomattox County officials agreed to pursue a new policy that would prevent the Town of Appomattox from drilling for water on county-owned land.

Soles4Souls has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that about 16,000 pairs of donated Minnetonka Moccasin shoes ended up for sale on eBay rather than being shipped to needy people in Africa.

Donelson-based non-profit agency that gives shoes to the needy has sued five defendants because donated shoes were being sold on eBay.