Boxing is Scott Sigmon’s life, and also his metaphor for life.

It was like a senior prom for adults, except that Gail Morrison didn’t know everybody there.

In fact, she hardly knew anyone when she arrived at the Environmental Ball at Washington’s Sequoia Hotel on Tuesday night. As it turned out, though, it didn’t matter.

It’s interesting the way photographer Susan Saandholland describes how the film “”Anne Spencer Revisited” took form last year inside the Lynchburg poet’s house on Pierce Street.

Every time I read or hear one of those grim predictions that newspapers are dying, I take it personally.

Christmas is all about optimism, and that’s probably one reason why we await it so eagerly.

It’s not business as usual at the Cavalier Store on Rivermont Avenue these days. Linda Williams isn’t there any more.

For Naomi Turner, Sunday was not a silent night. Not that she minded.

When’s the last time you heard a symphony orchestra play the blues? It’s happening more and more these days.

You can hear them coming, and that’s the fun of it.

Here comes the neighborhood.

All too often, the phrase “local history” used to be synonymous with “boring.” I think that’s changing.

“Democracy used to be a good thing,” former North Carolina Senator Jessie Helms once declared, “but lately it has gotten into the wrong hands.”

In the midst of the gentle rain falling on downtown Lynchburg Tuesday night came that “giant sucking sound” that Ross Perot loved to talk about. In this case, it was the sound of the energy being sucked out of the local Republican Party.

At the city GOP headquarters in a renovated building on Commerce Street, by the flickering light of a large TV screen, the mood was one of resignation.

We tend to treat politics like sports events in our society. Election Day reminds us that there’s an important difference.

On the eve of the sixth annual “Historic Ghosts of Lynchburg” walking tour organized by the Lynchburg Historic Foundation, foundation director Sally Schneider admitted to being somewhat haunted by the weather forecast.