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Editorial – Summer concerts return in two weeks
How time flies. Spring is half gone, the calendar barreling toward summer. Spring won’t officially end until June 20, but we’ve long accepted Memorial Day ...
Smithfield Times Editorial Board, Author at Smithfield Times
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Editorial – Small businesses merit support as economic backbone
This month’s closure of the Keurig coffee roasting plant in Windsor and the potential, but no guarantee, of future jobs from the 460 Commerce Center ...
by Smithfield Times Editorial Board, Wednesday, April 30, 2025 6:30 pm
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Editorial – Promising outlook for maritime jobs
With the controversial Tidewater Logistics Center on the outskirts of Windsor now blessed by a thin majority of county supervisors, Isle of Wight County must ...
by Smithfield Times Editorial Board, Thursday, April 24, 2025 8:09 pm
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Letter – Easter is annual reminder of eternal hope
The great Martin Luther, whose words we chose for this week’s Quote of the Week in the upper left corner of this page, reminded us ...
by Smithfield Times Editorial Board, Friday, April 18, 2025 3:25 pm
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Editorial – Coming next week: Municipal Mailer
Town of Smithfield residents can get the scoop on spring happenings with the semiannual town newsletter, the Municipal Mailer, inside next week’s Times, which will ...
by Smithfield Times Editorial Board, Friday, April 18, 2025 3:23 pm
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Editorial – Let sun shine on IW’s EDA
We applaud the enthusiastic reactions of Isle of Wight County Board of Supervisors Chairman Don Rosie and Supervisor Joel Acree to a Windsor resident’s recommendation ...
by Smithfield Times Editorial Board, Wednesday, April 9, 2025 3:12 pm
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Editorial – Let voters pick how to fund new schools
By stubbornly declaring an optional, voter-authorized sales tax to fund school construction to be an expensive “new tax” on Virginians, Gov. Glenn Youngkin completely misses ...
by Smithfield Times Editorial Board, Wednesday, April 2, 2025 3:05 pm
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Editorial – Another unwanted project ekes through
For the fifth time in less than two years, elected leadership last week approved a highly contentious project by a one-vote margin, this time Isle ...
by Smithfield Times Editorial Board, Tuesday, March 25, 2025 3:06 pm
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Editorial – Let sun shine on government at all levels
In this, another annual observance of Sunshine Week, we’re reminded of the wise words of Virginian James Madison, who declared: “A popular Government, without popular ...
by Smithfield Times Editorial Board, Tuesday, March 18, 2025 5:37 pm
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Editorial – Common ground on the Grange
Credit Steve Bowman for cutting to the chase. As the Smithfield Town Council’s discussions with developer Joseph Luter IV were about to go off the ...