OPINION | Most local voters feel a knee-jerk reaction to the phrase “tax increase,” but this one is small, and mostly paid by people who don’t live here.

PERSONAL ESSAYS | In Lynchburg, and small towns around the South, a yard full of toilet paper isn’t vandalism. It’s a community’s way of telling you that you matter.

For three decades, John Ward has been the Raiders’ football press box’s spotter, and the train that rolls through Doug Price Field after every Moore County touchdown is him. And where he learned to produce that distinctive sound might surprise you.

PUBLIC MEETINGS | No one spoke against the Highway 50 quarry Tuesday night. A letter from a Nashville lawyer, read by a stand-in and written for clients he won’t name, stopped the vote anyway. It’s the second anonymous push against the project this year.

FEATURES & INTERVIEWS | Rye whiskey barreled on Coy Hill in 2016, the highest point on the Jack Daniel Distillery grounds, is coming down the hill as this year’s Single Barrel Special Release. It’s the first Coy Hill rye ever bottled one barrel at a time.