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A Life Well-Lived: Shirley Padgett Lester (1947-2025)

Shirley Padgett Lester of Vinton went to her heavenly reward October 4. Below is the powerful eulogy her daughter Kelly Kiser wrote and calmly delivered at the memorial service...

BOB BROWN: How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden “Presidency”

Permit me to think out loud as an old-fashioned person who respects authority, history, and...

JOHNNY ROBINSON: The Gratitude Perch

On the old road up Mill Mountain, part of Roanoke’s fabulous greenway system, there’s a...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Sometimes President Trump Needs To Think Before He Speaks – Part II

Contrary to what President Trump believes, I think that Lakanwal was adequately vetted before September 2021,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Sometimes President Trump Needs To Think Before He Speaks – Part I

I read an article in the New York Post written by Ryan King on November 27 entitled...

I Have A Hang-Up

by Robert Adcox Each of us is often tasked with doing business over the phone. Whether enrolling for college courses, enquiring about layaway policies,...

Receiving The Greatest Gift by Tupper Garden

We walk through this life, many of us, perhaps all of us in a way, wounded.  Whether imagined or real, we all feel...

A Father’s Life – It Is to Weep

by Lucky Garvin Cailan tries to avoid practicing the saxophone.  This is the same child who, for weeks, threatened a hunger strike if he...

Recipe of the Week: Lamb Barley Soup

by Leigh Sackett Life can be so unpredictable! Have you ever felt that you have no idea AT ALL what the VERY next day...

Anti-Gravity Movement Gaining Momentum Across the USA!

by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D. House Bill 1276, introduced in the Missouri House of Representatives on 11 January 2012 but not yet referred to...

Recipe of the Week: Snow Storm Pot Roast

by Leigh Sackett I love cooking but there are some things that take precedent- LIKE SNOW! As I beheld the beauty of last Sunday’s glorious snowfall,...