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SERWAN ZANGANA: May God’s Will ALWAYS Overpower My Will

Between God’s will and our free will, our lives continue on earth. The outcome of the two Wills allow ALL the happenings that come our way. We strive and...

DEVOTIONAL: Eclipses Show God’s Handiwork…And Sense Of Humor?

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. ...

RANDY HUFF: Strolling, Stones and A Better Way

The stroll I often took in my growing up years recently came to mind. We...

BOB BROWN: My Mother’s Bed

Prowling memories creep into my awareness. Intuitively, these memory fragments seem significant but they remain...

SERWAN ZANGANA: Roanoke Valley Republican Women Meet to Discuss Fair Elections in Virginia

Virginia Fair Elections, was the topic presented by Dr. Clara Belle Wheeler on the warm...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: A Little Common Sense, Please

I can’t just keep quiet about Las Vegas.  Everything that can be said about gun control has already been said—many times over—and it has...

DICK BAYNTON: Roanoke City Jail: Self-Imposed Death Sentences

One of our readers of this column sent an E-Mail message recently pointing out that the Roanoke City Jail was reportedly where an inordinate...

Barbara Leach: Late Summer Early Fall in The Garden

By far, the diagnosis for the majority of samples that were brought in to the VCE Master Gardener Help Desk lately have been weather...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: Has It Been That Long?

Time has a way of collapsing on itself in retrospect.  It has been more than half century since the turbulent 1960s spilled out into...

Dick Baynton: Education is Located in ‘The Swamp’

As mentioned in last week’s column, education is the foundation of free and creative thought and the source of fresh ideas and concepts that...

Lucky Garvin: So Much More Than A Game

Even in a time when electronic diversions hold dominion over so many of us, the board game ‘Monopoly’ may be remembered. Its beginnings stretch...