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62 current stories found

The brick Chatham Southern Railway Depot with its tile roof and station sign. — Image: Nyttend / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Present · Civic life

Chatham drought warning reaches county customers beyond town limits

Pittsylvania’s September 11 alert identifies the county service areas supplied by Chatham and asks customers to begin conserving water.

3 min read · Published Sep 12, 2026

Trees and flowering shrubs frame layers of mountains along the Blue Ridge Parkway. — Image: National Park Service Digital Image Archives · Public domain

Present · Life

You can enjoy the Peaks of Otter without climbing a summit

Abbott Lake provides a lower-key way to spend time in the Blue Ridge landscape.

2 min read · Published Sep 8, 2026

Interior of the Everyman Cinema, Muswell Hill, October 2023 03 — Image: No Swan So Fine / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Present · Events

A family theater night starts with choosing the right show

The Academy’s event details and box office can answer questions a poster cannot.

2 min read · Published Sep 8, 2026

Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind in July 2023 — Image: Ser Amantio di Nicolao / Wikimedia Commons · CC0

Present · Schools

When print is the barrier, ask about another way to read

Talking books and braille services have a specific enrollment route.

2 min read · Published Sep 8, 2026

Students from a NASA Goddard summer engineering boot camp test two prototypes of GROVER — Image: NASA/Michael Comberiate / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Present · Events

Turn a rainy afternoon into a small engineering session

Amazement Square’s own video resources bring a Lynchburg learning experience home.

2 min read · Published Sep 8, 2026

LynchburgJune2021 — Image: SebastianJFromTheBurg / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Present · Life

Make Amazement Square fit the child, not the other way around

A Lynchburg museum visit can begin with a quieter route and a realistic first stop.

2 min read · Published Sep 8, 2026

Readers sit at wooden tables in a book-lined room at Handley Library. — Image: Sarah Stierch / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0

Past · Schools

Beyond the water-pump scene: reading Helen Keller’s education as a sustained partnership

Letters and archives reveal work that a single famous moment cannot contain.

2 min read · Published Sep 8, 2026

The Moon above the Artemis II SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft at Launch Pad 39B. — Image: NASA/Sam Lott / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Future · Nation

Artemis’ next steps show why a spaceflight schedule needs milestones

NASA’s published plan gives families a way to follow testing, capability, and uncertainty before a future landing.

2 min read · Published Sep 8, 2026

Danville Riverwalk Trail — Image: Mx. Granger / Wikimedia Commons · CC0

Present · Sports

Try the short course first at Ballou Park

Danville’s nine-hole disc-golf option gives beginners a manageable place to learn.

2 min read · Published Sep 8, 2026

Brick former Robert Russa Moton High School with a red roof, tall windows and two flagpoles in Farmville. — Image: William T. Ziglar, Jr. / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

Past · People

Barbara Johns made a school’s unequal conditions impossible to ignore

The Farmville student organizer’s story is about preparation, collective action, and the long work after a walkout.

2 min read · Published Sep 8, 2026

The National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia. — Image: RebelAt / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Past · Life

Bedford’s D-Day memorial connects a world event to a small-town homefront

The names and the work of remembrance deserve as much attention as the monument’s scale.

2 min read · Published Sep 8, 2026

Lynchburg Public Library Downtown Branch — Image: Packer1028 / Wikimedia Commons · CC0

Past · Schools

Before a download, the library sometimes came down the road

Bookmobiles turn the history of reading into a question about distance and access.

2 min read · Published Sep 8, 2026