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Localities hit by Sunday’s tornado continued Thursday to assess damages and open roadways, along with other recovery updates.

Big Island Elementary School library media specialist and school counselor Mona Kanode was announced as Bedford County Public Schools’ 2019 Teacher of the Year today Thursday.

On weekdays from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 20 through 27, traffic will be restricted on Easley, Oakland and Mosby avenues to accommodate milling and paving work, according to a news release from the city of Lynchburg.

As a tornado raced from Timberlake to Boonsboro to Elon on Sunday evening, families scattered. They scooped up their kids and loved ones and sought shelter from wind speeds as high as 165 mph.

Twenty one customers on Woodside Avenue are without natural gas service this afternoon after a gas line was hit by a contractor.

The storms that swept Virginia on Sunday debunked four persistent myths about tornadoes and geography in one evening.

Ed Hawkins, Inc. will close on May 1 and reopen as a second location for Altavista Appliance.

Lynchburg College’s first academic building will be celebrated Saturday with the unveiling of a plaque to commemorate its place on the National Register of Historic Places.

The owners of Speakertree and Maylynn’s Creamery have joined forces to open a gourmet ice-pop cart named Chill City Pops.

Power should be restored to Link Road by 5 p.m. today, the city said in a news release this afternoon, citing Appalachian Power.