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MELINDA MYERS: Be A Weather Watching Gardener
Each gardening season seems to offer new growing challenges. Our gardens are exposed to more drastic and variable weather with changing weather patterns. Floods, droughts, wind, temperature extremes, and...
BOB BROWN: Suspension of Critical Judgment
The Sheriff of a nearby county, before DNA identification was available, urgently requested the assistance...
SCOTT DREYER: A Trump Supporter Explains Her Reasonings
Below are comments from a friend who wishes to remain anonymous, for employment reasons, on...
DAWN CUSTALOW: “It’s Not Complicated – Just Love The One In Front of You . . .”
As a nation, we have been in shock and disbelief as we grieve the recent...
SCOTT DREYER: 2024 In Review, “The Year The Fever Broke” (Part 2)
Part 1, for January-July, is here.AUGUSTDemocrats had their convention in Chicago. They took the grotesque,...
Honoring the Small Connections
by Stephanie KoehlerAs I awoke in my Blue Ridge Mountain home this morning after a long night or torrential rains and violent storms,...
Tragedies and Victories by Joe Lehman
Meteorologists and reporters have called the outbreak of tornadoes last week one of the deadliest in US history. Scenes and reports of the...
Fit to Be Tied: Doggone Storm’s A’Coming!
by Fred FirstEven though, growing up in Alabama, I have had plenty of exposure to and an inordinate fascination with thunderstorms, today I...
Recipe of the Week: Cream Cheese-Poppy Seed Pound Cake
by Leigh SackettLove your mom and the moms you love by baking and giving the gift of this scrumptious cake. It is one...
Medical Education – Past and Future
by Hayden HollingsworthRecently, a group of retired physicians were guests for lunch at The Virginia Tech Carilion Medical School and Research Institute. We...
When Kids Cause Your Face To Turn Red
by Mary Jo ShannonAll parents, I suppose, at one time or another experience embarrassment due to words or actions of tactless offspring. I...