by Sara Hook | Feb 26, 2025 | Feature
Anything can be found at Walmart, and Beth and Wayne White knew that to be absolutely true. After all that’s where they found each other and nearly 30 years of love. It started as a blind date. Beth worked in night receiving at the Wards Road Walmart, spending the...
by Sara Hook | Feb 26, 2025 | Stories
Few marriages can boast five decades of experience, and the Norfields are some of the few. Even more impressive, they have a lifetime of friendship, beginning for Marilyn at the tender age of 3 when she met Derek at Sunday school. They grew up in the same town in...
by Sara Hook | Feb 26, 2025 | Stories
Their relationship started with a coincidence. David Norcross and his family were moving from New Jersey, headed south to North Carolina in the hopes of finding a good piece of property and building a home. On the way, they took a turn to get some gas and immediately...
by Sara Hook | Dec 21, 2024 | Stories
“I’m 77 years old, and I’m not about to quit,” Pastor Carlton Duck said, and he proves that statement every time he cuts his grass, drives his car, or stands up Sunday morning to preach a sermon at Gethsemane Baptist Church. Two amputated legs and a...
by Sara Hook | Jul 23, 2024 | Cover
PEOPLE ARE natural innovators. We adapt to our surroundings, solve problems, and work to make our lives and others’ better. For entrepreneurs, this is especially true, and Lynchburg has recently become home to a perfect example of that innovation — NOVU Pops. Created...
