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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...
Is Anything Working?
by Hayden Hollingsworth
Well, let’s see now . . . is anything going well?
The world financial markets are totally unsettled and, as if that...
Saw Horses Are So Easy
by John Robinson
My friend Broaddus had built a workshop out of a shed and I was helping him finish it out. There were...
Tending the Garden by Stuart Revercomb
This summer I planted a very nice garden on my land in Callaway. I had two rows of carrots, four rows of lima...
Sweet and Sad – The Timing of Life
by Lucky Garvin
Had I arrived 60 seconds sooner or sixty seconds later, I would have missed one of the sweetest, saddest things that...
Trouble In The Classroom
by Mary Jo Shannon
Only once during my elementary school days did I find myself in trouble with school authorities. The memory of that...
Living Within Our Means, Means Knowing Our Limits
by Fred First
I recently read these headlines, and was oddly encouraged: “Europe has already run out of fish for the year.” I’ll share with...