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The city of Lynchburg electoral board has appointed Christine O. Gibbons as the city’s general registrar, according to a news release from the city of Lynchburg. Gibbons replaces Interim Registrar Carolyn Sherayko and begins training June 1.

BEDFORD — A 1-mile corridor between two historic schools could become the center of efforts to revitalize downtown Bedford, local officials said this week.

CONCORD - A Campbell County man was hospitalized after his car ran off a rural Concord road and overturned in a field Thursday.

He received the Republican nomination last month.

One lane on the 4000 block of Fort Avenue, between Liggates Road and Rittenhouse Street, will be closed from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 24 to allow for inspection of the sanitary sewer line and stormwater system on Fort…

This week, members of the Altavista Public Works Department are removing four dozen ash trees from English Park after a recent arborist evaluation found damage to 95 percent of ash trees in the park, according to a Wednesday news release…

Starting May 29, DMV Connect — the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles’ mobile office — can process DMV transactions such as driver’s licenses; adult, child and veteran identification cards; disabled parking placards; and vehicle titles at City Hall, 900 Church…

Beneath new layers of clay on the tennis court at 1422 Pierce St. sits the history of thousands of footprints and imprints of tennis ball from decades of use by one of the city’s key civil rights pioneers.

After days of perpetual rainfall, several Lynchburg nonprofits and organizations caught a break of sunshine Wednesday for the annual Day of Caring.

Lynchburg Regional Airport will continue using the services of its sole fixed-base operator for another five years after city council voted 6-1 to renew the lease for Aviation Resources Inc. in a work session this week. Council member Randy Nelson…