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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,...
The Happy Chef – Nestled Egg Muffins
by Leigh SackettI love Easter and as my children get older it is refreshing that their Easter experience is more about the activities that...
This Land Goes on Forever: A Letter Home From the Family Farm
by Fred FirstIf the children of Southwest Virginia don’t grow up with strong ties to place, they will be less likely to strive...
Lessons From Okuma: An Energy Strategy for 2050 and Beyond
by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D.For years, I have advocated the use of nuclear power as an interim action to wean society at-large from...
A Perspective on Global Community
by Stephanie KoehlerI will start this by admitting that I don’t’ know anyone in Japan. While I know a few people who have traveled...
Miz Flora and Miz Anderson
by Lucky Garvin
Miz Flora.
She would come to our emergency department perhaps two or three times per week. At fifty years of age, she...
The Happy Chef – Fettuccine Alfredo Two Ways
by Leigh SackettLast night a very fun dinner was enjoyed in my house. My eight year old son, who recently began to enjoy...