by Tina Neeley | Dec 21, 2024 | Feature
The pastel tulle tutu fanned out over her sweet bare feet, worn over her onesie. She smiled, not just with her mouth, but with her nose and eyes. It was a day of ones — of firsts. The number one on Claire Parker’s first birthday outfit forever memorialized a day of...
by Tina Neeley | Dec 21, 2024 | Feature
Twice a year, in February and August, church doors open and shut out the cares and stress of the outside world. If only for a few hours, music and a common goal bring everyone together. Sometimes, the quartet’s lively banter, four-part harmony, and coordinated...
by Tina Neeley | Nov 8, 2024 | Feature
AS THE family of four unloaded from their van, their oldest child pulled on his father’s arm toward the train. Cory Osborne’s scaled-back, coal-black engine with its silver cowcatcher waited patiently as its cars and caboose filled with the family and others....
by Tina Neeley | Nov 8, 2024 | Feature
“HELLO, MY baby, hello my darlin’, hello my ragtime gal …” The tinkling and plinking of an old upright piano danced out of the speakers as he danced around the dining room, straw boating hat waving in one hand while the wooden hook cane punched the air with the other....
by Tina Neeley | Oct 19, 2024 | Feature
WHILE MOST of the city slept, Lynchburg police pursued a vehicle that failed to respond to their direction to pull over. The closest responder, Officer Peter Begley, followed the chase’s location on the radio and attempted to catch up as it snaked outside the city...
by Tina Neeley | Oct 18, 2024 | Feature
AN AD for a 911 dispatcher job surely stirs many emotions and ideas for most of us. We imagine we could never do that. How could we help someone else if we couldn’t remain calm ourselves? Or, for those of us who keep an eye on the television and an ear to the scanner,...
