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FRED FIRST: No Peace With The Winds of Winter
This post revisits a post from 2011 (and originally from maybe 2004) where the wind was the dominant feature of our winter days. This, I might add, was a complaint...
SERWAN ZANGANA: Is There Any Hope For Roanoke City Council?
Roanoke City Council members returned to their old political game in the Municipal building. Perhaps,...
SCOT BELLAVIA: Told Ya So
“I hate to be the one to tell you ‘I told you so,’ but...”“No, you...
MELINDA MYERS: Be A Weather Watching Gardener
Each gardening season seems to offer new growing challenges. Our gardens are exposed to more...
BOB BROWN: Suspension of Critical Judgment
The Sheriff of a nearby county, before DNA identification was available, urgently requested the assistance...
Honeybees Buzzing Back in 2011
by Fred First
What with the extremes of temperature and rainfall, and cursed by more than the usual cadre of pests in the vegetable...
Everyone Has Something to Write
by Hayden Hollingsworth
It was four years ago today I wrote my first column for The Roanoke Star-Sentinel.
Now, 114 columns later I took a...
My Dogs Don’t Do Time Zones
by Jon Kaufman
The state of Arizona does not believe in daylight savings time and neither does my dog Roscoe. Along with Hawaii, Arizona...
A Few Thoughts at 63 and Counting
by Lucky Garvin
Flying across the highway in front of me was a crow; and in its beak, a long piece of limp brown...
Bittersweet Memories
by Mary Jo Shannon
One Saturday in early November as my granddaughter and I strolled through the Roanoke City market area, admiring the colorful...
Here’s How Things Happen, And How They Don’t
by Mike Keeler
On November 11, 1918, "the war to end all wars" ended. Armistice occurred on the 11th hour of the 11th day...