It’s early afternoon on any given day of the week, and you walk into a time capsule — walls that encase items new and old — hoping to find that perfect piece to rejuvenate your closet. If you can’t tell already, I am talking about the infamous Goodwill … or just about any thrift store. Thrifting is a gateway to […]
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Dim lighting and acoustic music set an eerie and somber tone in the Tower Theater for Liberty Theater Department’s performance of “The Darkest Evening,” a student-led and student-written play about the life of the American poet Robert Frost. The stage resembled a swamp — weeds dotting the perimeter, a pool of water and stepping stones sitting off to the right. […]
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Feb. 24 marked National Chili Day, a day celebrated by Lynchburg’s Texas Inn, who hosted its own chili eating contest. Six contestants were challenged to eat two bowls filled with 36 ounces of chili as well as relish, onion and oyster crackers in under an hour, totaling around 75 ounces of food. The contestants included Conor Hughes, Jasmine Ford, […]
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Another promising day turned sour for William Byron after finishing 34th with his second straight DNF (Did not finish). While Byron led 10 laps, he wrecked out with 49 laps to go. Byron’s day started out overwhelmingly positive. He started in the seventh position and slowly worked his way towards the front throughout stage one and stage two, migrating between […]
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The Lady Flames softball team opened its 2022 season at home Feb. 25-26, going 3-1 through four games after a 10-game stretch in Florida to start the season. The Lady Flames were 5-5 going into a weekend consisting of doubleheaders both Friday and Saturday afternoon. The team split its doubleheader Friday, defeating George Washington University 6-3 before falling to Charleston […]
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Imagine planning a trip to the beach for yourself. What mode of transportation will you use to get there? Where will you stay? What’s your budget for food? Not too hard to plan, right? Now imagine, what if you had to plan a weekend trip for 160 people going to a state 800 miles away? You have to leave on […]
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Shiloh Robinson is a man of few words, but his efforts on the basketball court speak volumes. Robinson has led the team’s offensive play on multiple occasions this season, emerging as a key figure in the Flames’ quest to appear in their fourth straight NCAA tournament. “He’s having an all-conference type year,” Head Coach Ritchie McKay said. “He’s really grown […]
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The No. 21 Liberty baseball team continued its opening-season success with a 12-2 victory against the North Carolina A&T Aggies Feb. 23 at the Liberty Baseball Stadium for its seventh consecutive home-opener victory. In the first inning, freshman Garrett Horn welcomed the Aggies from the mound by striking out two of the first three batters, going 1-2-3 on the side. […]
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Despite a valiant effort, the Lady Flames basketball team was unable to pull off a historic upset against the No. 23 Florida Gulf Coast Eagles Feb. 24, falling short 69-61 in just its third loss of the season. Liberty entered Thursday’s matchup searching for not only the Lady Flames’ first ever program win against the FGCU Eagles, but also the […]
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Liberty’s men’s basketball closed out its regular season by holding off Kennesaw State’s impressive 3-point shooting performance to secure a 100-93 overtime victory Feb. 26 in the highest scoring game in Liberty Arena history. Home to the Flames since the 2020 season, the sold-out Liberty Arena experienced an electric offensive performance in the second half and overtime. Leading the charge […]
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Twenty-five years is an immensely long stretch of time. Most people can realistically go from birth to job, a marriage and kids in that span of time. Twenty-five years also marks the same length of Liberty’s men’s indoor track and field’s conference championship winning streak. Both men’s and women’s indoor track and field won conference championships Saturday, Feb. 26 at […]
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If I had to choose only one classic book to hold onto for the rest of my life, it would easily be “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen. Not for the sole reason of it being a romance novel, although I do appreciate the type of cherished love that Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy Fitzwilliam share, but to keep it simple, […]
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The internet is as dangerous for the adolescent mind as the streets of a crime-ridden city are for the innocent. This isn’t new information, but the dangers of social media have grown since the MySpace era. In response to the latest social media platforms and the trends that accompany them, parents should not allow their kids to get social media […]
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Things are continuing to heat up across the world. Following an invasion, Ukrainian forces are desperately struggling to fend off Russia. With every passing day, questions of whether this regional conflict will turn into global war continue to rise. With the concerns of war, a fear arises of the reinstitution of the Selective Services draft. The draft has not been […]
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This past weekend I had the immense pleasure of joining fellow staff members from the Liberty Champion for a long weekend in Orlando, Florida, attending the Conservative Political Action Conference. Here are my takeaways from this weekend: I have attended one political conference before this. CPAC showed me the importance of questioning and truly understanding my political beliefs. At […]
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