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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,...
Job Hunting / Body Re-Building Not for The Faint of Heart
by Jon KaufmanAvailable immediately; one highly motivated, salesperson/writer, familiar with the Roanoke market and recently released into the wild. Hardworking and brimming with...
My Big College Miracle
by Mary Jo ShannonHomecoming at Mary Baldwin College was last weekend. The campus has expanded since my college days, but the hills are...
Government Makes Good on A Very Old Promise
by Mike Keeler
It involves a small tract of land, set amid rolling foothills, adjacent to a world-famous tourist destination. For many years...
Terrible Twos or Feisty Fourteens?
by Keith McCurdy“Just what is the big deal with the terrible twos?” a mom recently asked. She had been talking with other mothers...
Who Is Going To Lead?
by Hayden HollingsworthFrom the day humans came to the realization survival depended on communal living, "who is going to lead," must have been...
Preacher’s Corner by Donna Hopkins Britt
We can be very attached to places, like a home, or town, or house of worship … these places have significance beyond the...